Provided by: libauthen-simple-perl_0.5-1.1_all bug

NAME

       Authen::Simple::Password - Simple password checking

SYNOPSIS

           if ( Authen::Simple::Password->check( $password, $encrypted ) ) {
               # OK
           }

DESCRIPTION

       Provides a simple way to verify passwords.

METHODS

       ·   check( $password, $encrypted )

           Returns true on success and false on failure.

SUPPORTED PASSWORD FORMATS

       ·   Plain

           Plaintext

       ·   Crypt

           crypt(3)

       ·   Crypt Modular

           ·       $1$

                   MD5-based password algorithm

           ·       $apr$

                   MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant

       ·   LDAP

           ·       {CLEARTEXT}

                   Plaintext.

           ·       {CRYPT}

                   Uses crypt(3)

           ·       {MD5}

                   MD5 algorithm

           ·       {SMD5}

                   Seeded MD5 algorithm

           ·       {SHA}

                   SHA-1 algorithm

           ·       {SSHA}

                   Seeded SHA-1 algorithm

       ·   MD5 algorithm

           Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

       ·   SHA-1 algorithm

           Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

       ·   SHA-2 256 algorithm

           Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

SEE ALSO

       Authen::Simple

       crypt(3).

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

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