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NAME

6       CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Driver - Base module for
7       building driver classes for CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication
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SYNOPSIS

10        package CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Driver::MyDriver;
11        use base qw(CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication::Driver);
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13         sub verify_credentials {
14             my $self = shift;
15             my @credentials = @_;
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17             if ( >>> Validate Credentials <<< ) {
18                 return $credentials[0];
19             }
20             return;
21         }
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DESCRIPTION

24       This module is a base class for all driver classes for the
25       CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication plugin.  Each driver class is
26       required to provide only one method to validate the given credentials.
27       Normally only two credentials will be passed in (username and
28       password), but you can configure the plugin to handle any number of
29       credentials (for example you may require the user to enter a group
30       name, or domain name as well as a username and password).
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FIELD FILTERS

33       It is quite common for passwords to be stored using some form of one
34       way encryption.  Unix crypt being the old standard in the Unix
35       community, however MD5 or SHA1 hashes are more popular today.  In order
36       to simplify the validation routines some methods have been provided to
37       help test these passwords.  When configuring a Driver (and if the
38       driver supports it), you can specify which fields are encoded, and
39       which method is used for the encoding by specifying a filter on the
40       field in question.
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42        CREDENTIALS => ['authen_username', 'authen_password'],
43        DRIVERS     => [ 'DBI',
44                           DSN         => '...',
45                           TABLE       => 'users',
46                           CONSTRAINTS => {
47                               username       => '__CREDENTIAL_1__',
48                               'MD5:password' => '__CREDENTIAL_2__',
49                           }
50                       ],
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52       Here we are saying that the password field is encoded using an MD5
53       hash, and should be checked accordingly.
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55   Filter options
56       Some of the filters may have multiple forms.  For example there are
57       three forms of MD5 hashes:  binary, base64 and hex.  You can specify
58       these extra options by using an underscore to separate it from the
59       filter name.
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61        'MD5_base64:password'
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63   Chained Filters
64       it is possible to chain multiple filters.  This can be useful if your
65       MD5 strings are stored in hex format.  Hex numbers are case
66       insensitive, so the may be stored in either upper or lower case.  To
67       make this consistent, you can MD5 encode the password first, and then
68       upper case the results.  The filters are applied from the inside out:
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70        'uc:MD5_hex:password'
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72   Custom Filters
73       If your field is encoded using a custom technique, then you can provide
74       a custom filter function.  This can be be done by providing a FILTERS
75       option that contains a hash of filter subroutines that are keyed by
76       their name.  You can then use the filter name on any of the fields as
77       if it was a builtin filter.
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79        CREDENTIALS => ['authen_username', 'authen_password'],
80        DRIVERS     => [ 'DBI',
81                           DSN      => '...',
82                           TABLE    => 'users',
83                           CONSTRAINTS => {
84                               username         => '__CREDENTIAL_1__',
85                               'rot13:password' => '__CREDENTIAL_2__',
86                           }
87                           FILTERS => { rot13 => \&rot13_filter },
88                       ],
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90        sub rot13_filter {
91            my $param = shift;
92            my $value = shift;
93            $value =~ tr/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;
94            return $value;
95        }
96
97       Please see the documentation for the driver that you are using to make
98       sure that it supports encoded fields.
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100   Builtin Filters
101       Here is a list of the filters that are provided with this module:
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103       crypt - provided by perl "crypt" function
104       MD5 - requires Digest::MD5
105       SHA1 - requires Digest::SHA1
106       uc - provided by the perl "uc" function
107       lc - provided by the perl "lc" function
108       trim - removed whitespace from the start and end of the field
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METHODS

111   new
112       This is a constructor that can create a new Driver object.  It requires
113       an Authentication object as its first parameter, and any number of
114       other parameters that will be used as options depending on which Driver
115       object is being created.  You shouldn't need to call this as the
116       Authentication plugin takes care of creating Driver objects.
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118   initialize
119       This method will be called right after a new Driver object is created.
120       So any startup customizations can be dealt with here.
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122   options
123       This will return a list of options that were provided when this driver
124       was configured by the user.
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126   authen
127       This will return the underlying
128       CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication object.  In most cases it will
129       not be necessary to access this.
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131   find_option
132       This method will search the Driver options for a specific key and
133       return the value it finds.
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135   verify_credentials
136       This method needs to be provided by the driver class.  It needs to be
137       an object method that accepts a list of credentials, and will verify
138       that the credentials are valid, and return a username that will be used
139       to identify this login (usually you will just return the value of the
140       first credential, however you are not bound to that)..
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142   filter
143       This method can be used to filter a field (usually password fields)
144       using a number of standard or custom encoding techniques.  See the
145       section on Builtin Filters above to see what filters are available When
146       using a custom filter, you will need to provide a FILTERS option in the
147       configuration of the DRIVER (See the section on FIELD FILTERS above for
148       an example).  By default, if no filter is specified, it is returned as
149       is.  This means that you can run all fields through this function even
150       if they don't have any filters to simplify the driver code.
151
152        my $filtered = $self->filter('MD5_hex:password', 'foobar');
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154        - or -
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156        # custom filter
157        my $filtered = $self->filter('foobar:password', 'foo');
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159        - or -
160
161        # effectively a noop
162        my $filtered = $self->filter('username', 'foo');
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164   check_filtered
165       This method can be used to test filtered fields (usually password
166       fields) against a number of standard or custom encoding techniques.
167       The following encoding techniques are provided:  plain, MD5, SHA1,
168       crypt.  When using a custom encoder, you will need to provide it in the
169       configuration of the DRIVERS (See the section on ENCODED PASSWORDS
170       above for an example).  By default, if no encoding is specified, it is
171       assumed to be 'plain'.  This means that you can run all fields through
172       this function even if they don't have any encoding to simplify the
173       driver code.
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175        my $verified = $self->check_filtered('MD5:password', 'foobar', 'OFj2IjCsPJFfMAxmQxLGPw');
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177        - or -
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179        # custom encoder
180        my $verified = $self->check_filtered('foobar:password', 'foo', 'bar');
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182        - or -
183
184        # a field that isn't filtered (effectively just checks for equality on second and third args)
185        my $verified = $self->check_filtered('username', 'foobar', 'foobar');
186        my $verified = $self->check_filtered('plain:username', 'foobar', 'foobar');
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188   strip_field_names
189       This method will take a field name (or list of names) and strip off the
190       leading encoding type.  For example if you passed in 'MD5:password' the
191       method would return 'password'.
192
193        my $fieldname = $self->strip_field_names('MD5:password');
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SEE ALSO

196       CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication, perl(1)
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AUTHOR

199       Cees Hek <ceeshek@gmail.com>
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202       Copyright (c) 2005, SiteSuite. All rights reserved.
203
204       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
205       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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