NAME

Passwd::Keyring::Gnome - Password storage implementation based on GNOME Keyring.

VERSION

Version 0.3003

SYNOPSIS

Gnome Keyring based implementation of Keyring. Provide secure storage for passwords and similar sensitive data.

use Passwd::Keyring::Gnome;

my $keyring = Passwd::Keyring::Gnome->new(
     app=>"blahblah scraper",
     group=>"Johnny web scrapers",
);

my $username = "John";  # or get from .ini, or from .argv...

my $password = $keyring->get_password($username, "blahblah.com");
unless( $password ) {
    $password = <somehow interactively prompt for password>;

    # securely save password for future use
    $keyring->set_password($username, $password, "blahblah.com");
}

login_somewhere_using($username, $password);
if( password_was_wrong ) {
    $keyring->clear_password($username, "blahblah.com");
}

Note: see Passwd::Keyring::Auto::KeyringAPI for detailed comments on keyring method semantics (this document is installed with Passwd::Keyring::Auto package).

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new(app=>'app name', group=>'passwords folder')

Initializes the processing. Croaks if gnome keyring does not seem to be available.

Handled named parameters:

- app - symbolic application name (not used at the moment, but can be used in future as comment and in prompts, so set sensibly)

- group - name for the password group (will be visible in seahorse so can be used by end user to manage passwords, different group means different password set, a few apps may share the same group if they need to use the same passwords set)

set_password(username, password, realm)

Sets (stores) password identified by given realm for given user

get_password($user_name, $realm)

Reads previously stored password for given user in given app. If such password can not be found, returns undef.

clear_password($user_name, $realm)

Removes given password (if present)

Returns how many passwords actually were removed

is_persistent

Returns info, whether this keyring actually saves passwords persistently.

(true in this case)

AUTHOR

Marcin Kasperski

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to issue tracker at https://bitbucket.org/Mekk/perl-keyring-gnome.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Passwd::Keyring::Gnome

You can also look for information at:

http://search.cpan.org/~mekk/Passwd-Keyring-Gnome/

Source code is tracked at:

https://bitbucket.org/Mekk/perl-keyring-gnome

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012 Marcin Kasperski.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

cpanm Passwd::Keyring::Gnome

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Passwd::Keyring::Gnome