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OpenXPKI::Server::Authentication::External

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2008-09-30
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Name

OpenXPKI::Server::Authentication::External - support for external authentication.

Description

This is the class which supports OpenXPKI with an authentication methodvia an external program. The parameters are passed as a hash reference.

Functions

new

is the constructor. The supported parameters are XPATH and COUNTER.This is the minimum parameter set for any authentication class.The XML configuration includes a command tag and a role or a regular expressionconfiguration (pattern and replacement). Additionally it is possible tospecify environment variables. The tag env must include a name and a valueparameter. Please note that the strings __USER__ and __PASSWORD__ in the valueparameter will be replaced by the entered user and passphrase.

login

returns (user, role, service ready message) triple if login wassuccessful, (undef, undef, {}) otherwise.

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