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NAME

PlugAuth::Client - PlugAuth Client

VERSION

version 0.38

SYNOPSIS

In a perl program :

 my $r = PlugAuth::Client->new;

 # Check auth server status and version
 my $check = $r->status;
 my $version = $r->version;

 # Authenticate user "alice", pw "sesame"
 $r->login("alice", "sesame");
 if ($r->auth) {
    print "authentication succeeded\n";
 } else {
    print "authentication failed\n";
 }

 # Authorize "alice" to "POST" to "/board"
 if ($r->authz("alice","POST","board")) {
     print "authorization succeeded\n";
 } else {
     print "authorization failed\n";
 }

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a perl front-end to the PlugAuth API. For a stripped down interface to just the authentication and authorization API (that is not including the user/group/authorization management functions), see PlugAuth::Client::Tiny.

METHODS

$client->auth

Returns true if the PlugAuth server can authenticate the user. Username and passwords can be specified with the login method or via the application's configuration file, see Clustericious::Client for details.

$client->authz($user $action, $resource)

Returns true if the given user ($user) is authorized to perform the given action ($action) on the given resource ($resource).

$client->user

Returns a list reference containing all usernames.

$client->create_user( %args )

Create a user with the given username and password.

  • user

    The new user's username

    REQUIRED

  • password

    The new user's password

    REQUIRED

  • groups

    List of groups as a comma separated string. Using this option requires that the server is running PlugAuth 0.21 or better.

$client->delete_user( $username )

Delete the user with the given username.

$client->groups($user)

Returns a list reference containing the groups that the given user ($user) belongs to.

$client->change_password($user, $password)

Change the password of the given user ($user) to a new password ($password).

$client->group

Returns a list reference containing all group names.

$client->users($group)

Returns the list of users belonging to the given group ($group).

$client->create_group( \%args )

Create a group.

  • group

    The name of the new group

  • users

    Comma separated list (as a string) of the users that should initially belong to this group.

$client->update_group( $group, '--users' => $users )

Update the given group ($group) replacing the existing list with the new list ($users), which is a comma separated list as a string.

$client->delete_group( $group )

Delete the given group ($group).

$client->group_add_user( $group, $user )

Adds the given user ($user) to the given group ($group)

$client->group_delete_user( $group, $user )

Delete the given user ($user) from the given group ($group)

$client->grant( $user, $action, $resource )

Grants the given user ($user) the authorization to perform the given action ($action) on the given resource ($resource).

$client->revoke( $user, $action, $resource )

Revokes permission for the give user ($user) to perform the given action ($action) on the given resource ($resource).

$client->granted

Returns a list of granted permissions

$client->actions

Returns a list reference containing the actions that the PlugAuth server knows about.

$client->host_tag($ip_address, $tag)

Returns true if the host specified by the given IP address ($ip_address) has the given host tag ($tag).

$client->resources( $user, $action, $resource_regex )

Returns a list reference containing the resources that match the regex provided ($resource_regex) that the given user ($user) can perform the given action ($action). To see all the resources that the user can perform the given action against, pass in '.*' as the regex.

$client->action_resources( $user )

Returns a hash reference of all actions and resources that the given user ($user) can perform. The keys in the returned hash are the actions and the values are list references containing the resources where those actions can be performed by the user.

$client->audit( $year, $month, $day )

Interface to the Audit plugin, if it is available.

SEE ALSO

Clustericious::Client, PlugAuth, plugauthclient, plugauthpasswd, PlugAuth::Client::Tiny

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <gollis@sesda3.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by NASA GSFC.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.