NAME Catalyst::Plugin::SimpleAuth - Simple authentication for Catalyst SYNOPSIS # in your Catalyst application: use Catalyst qw(SimpleAuth); __PACKAGE__->config( simpleauth => { class => 'Users' }, ); # in your sign up code unless( $c->sign_up( { username => $email, password => $password, } ) ) { # sign up failed, user exists } my $user = $c->user; ... # in your sign in code my $user = $c->user; if ($c->sign_in( { username => $email, password => $password, } ) ) { my $user = $c->user; ... } else { # sign in failed } # in your sign out code $c->sign_out; DESCRIPTION This module is a replacement module for Catalyst::Authentication::* which does one thing and does it well. This module assumes that you have a model for the users you wish to authenticate - this will typically be a DBIx::Class module. You set the name of the model to authenticate in the configuration as above. 'sign_up' creates the instance for you. 'sign_in' signs a person in, 'sign_out' signs a person out. You can access the user object either as $c->user in the code or as the 'user' variable in the stash. This module saves SHA1 digests of the passwords instead of the password. The model will generally have a database structure along the lines of: CREATE TABLE `users` ( `username` text NOT NULL, `password` char(40) NOT NULL, `first_name` text, `last_name` text ); Note that the password will be 40 characters long. This module requires either Catalyst::Plugin::Session or Catalyst::Plugin::CookiedSession. AUTHOR Leon Brocard . COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2008-9, Leon Brocard LICENSE This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.