Authen::Simple::Password.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2010-04-29 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Authen::Simple::Password - Simple password checking

SYNOPSIS

     if ( Authen::Simple::Password->check( $password, $encrypted ) ) {
         # OK
     }
 
 

DESCRIPTION

Provides a simple way to verify passwords.

METHODS

*
check( $password, $encrypted )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SUPPORTED PASSWORD FORMATS

*
Plain

Plaintext

*
Crypt

crypt(3)

*
Crypt Modular
*
$1$

MD5-based password algorithm

*
$apr$

MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant

*
LDAP
*
{CLEARTEXT}

Plaintext.

*
{CRYPT}

Uses crypt(3)

*
{MD5}

MD5 algorithm

*
{SMD5}

Seeded MD5 algorithm

*
{SHA}

SHA-1 algorithm

*
{SSHA}

Seeded SHA-1 algorithm

*
MD5 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

*
SHA-1 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

*
SHA-2 256 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple

crypt(3).

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com" This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.