NAME

       DBIx::Password - Allows you to create a global password file for DB passwords

SYNOPSIS

         use DBIx::Password;
         my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect($user);
         my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect_cached($user);
         $dbh->getDriver;
         DBIx::Password::getDriver($user);
         DBIx::Password::checkVirtualUser($user);

         DBIx::Password::clearConfig();
         DBIx::Password::readConfig("$ENV{HOME}/.my.secret.file");

DESCRIPTION

       Don't you hate keeping track of database passwords and such throughout your scripts? How
       about the problem of changing those passwords on a mass scale? This module is one possible
       solution. It stores all your virtual users and data in /etc/dbix-password.conf.  For each
       user you need to specify the database module to use, the database connect string, the
       username and the password.  You will have to give a name to this virtual user.  You can
       add as many as you like.

       I would recommend that if you are only using this with web applications that you change
       the final permissions on this package after it is installed in site_perl such that only
       the webserver can read it.

       A method called getDriver has been added so that you can determine what driver is being
       used (handy for working out database indepence issues).

       If you want to find out if the virtual user is valid, you can call the class method
       checkVirtualUser().  It returns true (1) if the username is valid, and zero if not.

       Once your are done you can use the connect method (or the connect_cache method) that comes
       with DBIx-Password and just specify one of the virtual users you defined while making the
       module.

       BTW I learned the bless hack that is used from Apache::DBI so some credit should go to the
       authors of that module.  This is a rewrite of the module Tangent::DB that I did for
       slashcode.

       If your program does not need the system-wide information stored in the
       /etc/dbix-password.conf file, you may use the clearConfig() and readConfig() functions to
       get the data from another source.  At any time, readConfig() may also be used to merge the
       data from another file into the currently-loaded configuration.

       Hope you enjoy it.

HOME

       To find out more information look at: http://www.tangent.org/DBIx-Password/

AUTHOR

       Brian Aker, brian@tangent.org

SEE ALSO

       perl(1). DBI(3).