LedgerSMB::Auth.pm
Provides an abstraction layer for session management and authentication.
- Provided by: ledgersmb (Version: 1.3.46-1)
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SYNOPSIS
This routine provides an abstraction layer for session management and authentication. The current application only ships with a simple authentication layer using database-native accounts. Other authentication methods are quite possible though currently every LedgerSMB user must be a database user.
METHODS
Each plugin library must provide the following methods.
- session_check
- Check whether a session exists and handle failure appropriately.
Modules are free to define how failure should be addressed.
- session_create
- Create a session
- session_destroy
- Destroy a session.
- get_credentials
- Get credentials and return them to the application.
Must return a hashref with the following entries:
login password
- credential_prompt
- Prompt user for credentials
METHODS PROVIDED IN COMMON
- http_error
- Send an http error to the browser.
COPYRIGHT
# Small Medium Business Accounting software # http://www.ledgersmb.org/ # # # Copyright (C) 2006-2011 # This work contains copyrighted information from a number of sources all used # with permission. It is released under the GNU General Public License # Version 2 or, at your option, any later version. See COPYRIGHT file for # details.