NAME

       Authen::Simple::CDBI - Simple Class::DBI authentication

SYNOPSIS

           use Authen::Simple::CDBI;

           my $cdbi = Authen::Simple::CDBI->new(
               class => 'MyApp::Model::User'
           );

           if ( $cdbi->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
               # successfull authentication
           }

           # or as a mod_perl Authen handler

           PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
           PerlModule Authen::Simple::CDBI

           PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleDBI_class "MyApp::Model::User"

           <Location /protected>
             PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::CDBI
             AuthType          Basic
             AuthName          "Protected Area"
             Require           valid-user
           </Location>

DESCRIPTION

       Class::DBI authentication.

METHODS

       •   new

           This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

           •       class

                   Class::DBI subclass. Required.

                       class => 'MyApp::Model::User'

           •       username

                   Name of "username" column. Defaults to "username".

                       username => 'username'

           •       password

                   Name of "password" column. Defaults to "password".

                       password => 'password'

           •       log

                   Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".

                       log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::CDBI')

       •   authenticate( $username, $password )

           Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple.

       Authen::Simple::Password.

       Class::DBI.

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.