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

the Authen::Simple manpage

crypt(3).

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen ch@ngmedia.com

COPYRIGHT

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