NAME

       Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Auth - authentication for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable
       modules

VERSION

       version 1.20

SYNOPSIS

       This module catches messages at priority 1 and stops anything starting with '!' unless the
       user is authed. Most admin modules, e.g. Loader, can merely sit at priority 2 and assume
       the user is authed if the !command reaches them. If you want to use modules that can
       change bot state, like Loader or Vars, you almost certainly want this module.

IRC USAGE

       The default user is 'admin' with password 'julia'. Change this.

       !auth <username> <password>
           Authenticate as an administrators. Logins timeout after an hour.

       !adduser <username> <password>
           Adds a user with the given password.

       !deluser <username>
           Deletes a user. Don't delete yourself, that's probably not a good idea.

       !password <old password> <new password>
           Change your current password (must be logged in first).

       !users
           List all the users the bot knows about.

VARIABLES

       password_admin
           This variable specifies the admin password. Its normally set via the !password
           directive and defaults to 'julia'. Please change this as soon as possible.

       allow_anonymous
           If this variable is true, the implicit authentication handling is disabled. Every
           module will have to check for authentication via the authed method, otherwise access
           is just granted. This is only useful to allow modules to handle directives starting
           with an exclamation mark without needing any authentication. And to make things even
           more interesting, you won't be warned that you haven't authenticated, so modules
           needing authentication will fail without any warning. It defaults to false and should
           probably never be changed. You've been warned.

METHODS

       The only useful method is "authed()":

       authed($username)
           Returns 1 if the given username is logged in, 0 otherwise:

             if ($bot->module("Auth")->authed("jerakeen")) { ... }

BUGS

       All users are admins. This is fine at the moment, as the only things that need you to be
       logged in are admin functions. Passwords are stored in plaintext, and are trivial to
       extract for any module on the system. I don't consider this a bug, because I assume you
       trust the modules you're loading. If Auth is not loaded, all users effectively have admin
       permissions. This may not be a good idea, but is also not an Auth bug, it's an
       architecture bug.

AUTHOR

       Mario Domgoergen <mdom@cpan.org>

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