README
1NAME
2 DBIx::Password - Allows you to create a global password file for
3 DB passwords
4
5SYNOPSIS
6 use DBIx::Password;
7 my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect($user);
8 my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect_cached($user);
9 $dbh->getDriver;
10 DBIx::Password::getDriver($user);
11 DBIx::Password::checkVirtualUser($user);
12
13DESCRIPTION
14 Don't you hate keeping track of database passwords and such
15 throughout your scripts? How about the problem of changing those
16 passwords on a mass scale? This module is one possible solution.
17 When you go to build this module it will ask you to create
18 virtual users. For each user you need to specify the database
19 module to use, the database connect string, the username and the
20 password. You will be prompted to give a name to this virtual
21 user. You can add as many as you like.
22
23 I would recommend that if you are only using this with web
24 applications that you change the final permissions on this
25 package after it is installed in site_perl such that only the
26 webserver can read it.
27
28 A method called getDriver has been added so that you can
29 determine what driver is being used (handy for working out
30 database indepence issues).
31
32 If you want to find out if the virtual user is valid, you can
33 call the class method checkVirtualUser(). It returns true (1) if
34 the username is valid, and zero if not.
35
36 Once your are done you can use the connect method (or the
37 connect_cache method) that comes with DBIx-Password and just
38 specify one of the virtual users you defined while making the
39 module.
40
41 BTW I learned the bless hack that is used from Apache::DBI so
42 some credit should go to the authors of that module. This is a
43 rewrite of the module Tangent::DB that I did for slashcode.
44
45 Hope you enjoy it.
46
47INSTALL
48 Basically:
49
50 perl Makefile.PL
51
52 make
53
54 make test
55
56 make install
57
58 Be sure to answer the questions as you make the module
59
60HOME
61 To find out more information look at:
62 http://www.tangent.org/DBIx-Password/
63
64AUTHOR
65 Brian Aker, brian@tangent.org
66
67SEE ALSO
68 perl(1). DBI(3).
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