NAME
DBIx::Password - Allows you to create a global password file for
DB passwords
SYNOPSIS
use DBIx::Password;
my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect($user);
my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect_cached($user);
$dbh->getDriver;
DBIx::Password::getDriver($user);
DBIx::Password::checkVirtualUser($user);
DESCRIPTION
Don't you hate keeping track of database passwords and such
throughout your scripts? How about the problem of changing those
passwords on a mass scale? This module is one possible solution.
When you go to build this module it will ask you to create
virtual users. For each user you need to specify the database
module to use, the database connect string, the username and the
password. You will be prompted to give a name to this virtual
user. You can add as many as you like.
I would recommend that if you are only using this with web
applications that you change the final permissions on this
package after it is installed in site_perl such that only the
webserver can read it.
A method called getDriver has been added so that you can
determine what driver is being used (handy for working out
database indepence issues).
If you want to find out if the virtual user is valid, you can
call the class method checkVirtualUser(). It returns true (1) if
the username is valid, and zero if not.
Once your are done you can use the connect method (or the
connect_cache method) that comes with DBIx-Password and just
specify one of the virtual users you defined while making the
module.
BTW I learned the bless hack that is used from Apache::DBI so
some credit should go to the authors of that module. This is a
rewrite of the module Tangent::DB that I did for slashcode.
Hope you enjoy it.
INSTALL
Basically:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Be sure to answer the questions as you make the module
HOME
To find out more information look at:
http://www.tangent.org/DBIx-Password/
AUTHOR
Brian Aker,
[email protected]
SEE ALSO
perl(1). DBI(3).
