Authen::Simple::Password

(source, CPAN)

CONTENTS

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
METHODS
SUPPORTED PASSWORD FORMATS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

#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

#AUTHOR

Christian Hansen chansen@cpan.org

#COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.