Reference

Authen::Simple::Password(3pm)

Simple password checking

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

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check( $password, $encrypted )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SUPPORTED PASSWORD FORMATS

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Plain

Plaintext

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Crypt

crypt(3)

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Crypt Modular

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$1$

MD5-based password algorithm

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$apr$

MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant

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LDAP

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{CLEARTEXT}

Plaintext.

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{CRYPT}

Uses crypt(3)

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{MD5}

MD5 algorithm

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{SMD5}

Seeded MD5 algorithm

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{SHA}

SHA-1 algorithm

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{SSHA}

Seeded SHA-1 algorithm

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MD5 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

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SHA-1 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

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SHA-2 256 algorithm

Encoded as binary, Base64 or hexadecimal.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple

crypt(3).

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "[email protected]"

COPYRIGHT

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

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