NAME
Gantry::Control::C::Authen - Database based authentication
SYNOPSIS
use Gantry::Control::C::Authen qw/-Engine=MP20/;
DESCRIPTION
This module allows authentication against a database.
APACHE
Sample Apache conf configuration
<Location /location/to/auth >
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Manual"
PerlSetVar auth_dbconn 'dbi:Pg:<database_name>'
PerlSetVar auth_dbuser '<database_user>'
PerlSetVar auth_dbpass '<database_password>'
PerlSetVar auth_dbcommit off
PerlAuthenHandler Gantry::Control::C::Authen
require valid-user
</Location>
DATABASE
This is the table that will be queried for the authentication of the user.
create table "auth_users" (
"id" int4 default nextval('auth_users_seq') NOT NULL,
"user_id" int4,
"active" bool,
"user_name" varchar,
"passwd" varchar,
"crypt" varchar,
"first_name" varchar,
"last_name" varchar,
"email" varchar
);
METHODS
- handler
-
The mod_perl authen handler.
SEE ALSO
Gantry::Control::C::Authz(3), Gantry::Control(3), Gantry(3)
LIMITATIONS
This and all authentication and autorization modules pre-suppose that the auth_* tables are in the same database as the application tables.
AUTHOR
Tim Keefer <tkeefer@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-6, Tim Keefer.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.