NAME

Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Htpasswd - Authen::Htpasswd based user storage/authentication

VERSION

version 1.006

SYNOPSIS

    use Catalyst qw/
      Authentication
    /;
    __PACKAGE__->config(
        authentication => {
            default_realm => 'test',
            realms => {
                test => {
                    credential => {
                        class          => 'Password',
                        password_field => 'password',
                        password_type  => 'self_check',
                    },
                    store => {
                        class => 'Htpasswd',
                        file => 'htpasswd',
                    },
                },
            },
        },
    );
    sub login : Global {
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
        $c->authenticate({ username => $c->req->param("login"), password => $c->req->param("password") });
    }

DESCRIPTION

This plugin uses Authen::Htpasswd to let your application use ".htpasswd" files for it's authentication storage.

METHODS

new

Simple constructor, dies if the htpassword file can't be found

find_user

Looks up the user, and returns a Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Htpasswd::User object.

user_supports

Delegates to Catalyst::Authentication::User->supports or an override in user_class.

CONFIGURATION

The path to the htpasswd file. If the path starts with a slash, then it is assumed to be a fully qualified path, otherwise the path is fed through "$c->path_to" and so normalised to the application root.

Alternatively, it is possible to pass in an Authen::Htpasswd object here, and this will be used as the htpasswd file.

user_class

Change the user class which this store returns. Defaults to Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Htpasswd::User. This can be used to add additional functionality to the user class by sub-classing it, but will not normally be needed.

user_field

Change the field that the username is found in in the information passed into the call to "$c->authenticate()".

This defaults to username , and generally you should be able to use the module as shown in the synopsis, however if you need a different field name then this setting can change the default.

Example:

    __PACKAGE__->config( authentication => { realms => { test => {
                    store => {
                        class => 'Htpasswd',
                        user_field => 'email_address',
                    },
    }}});
    # Later in your code
    $c->authenticate({ email_address => $c->req->param("email"), password => $c->req->param("password") });

SUPPORT

Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Catalyst-Authentication-Store-Htpasswd> (or bug-Catalyst-Authentication-Store-Htpasswd@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-Catalyst-Authentication-Store-Htpasswd@rt.cpan.org>).

There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at <http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst>.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#catalyst" on "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#catalyst>.

AUTHOR

XXXX XXX'XX (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

David Kamholz <dkamholz@cpan.org>
Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
Tom Bloor <t.bloor@shadowcat.co.uk>
Christopher Hoskin <christopher.hoskin@gmail.com>
Ilmari Vacklin <ilmari.vacklin@cs.helsinki.fi>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.