APR::Util - Perl API for Various APR Utilities
use APR::Util (); $ok = password_validate($passwd, $hash);
Various APR utilities that don't fit into any other group.
APR::Util provides the following functions and/or methods:
APR::Util
password_validate
Validate an encrypted password hash against a plain text password (with lots of restrictions and peculiarities).
$ok = password_validate($passwd, $hash);
$passwd
Plain text password string
$hash
Encrypted or encoded hash. See below for supported hash formats.
$ok
The password either matches or not.
The function handles the output of the following functions (it knows to tell md5 and sha1 from the others, since they are have a special pattern recognized by apr):
md5
generated by apr_md5_encode() (for which at the moment we have no perl glue, ask if you need it).
apr_md5_encode()
sha1
generated by apr_sha1_base64() (for which at the moment we have no perl glue, ask if you need it).
apr_sha1_base64()
and it's available only since Apache 2.0.50
crypt
On all but the following platforms: MSWin32, beos and NetWare. Therefore you probably don't want to use that feature, unless you know that your code will never end up running on those listed platforms.
Moreover on these three platforms if that function sees that the hash is not of md5 and sha1 formats, it'll do a clear to clear text matching, always returning success, no matter what the hashed value is.
Warning: double check that you understand what this function does and does not before using it.
APR::Socket also provides auto-generated Perl interface for a few other methods which aren't tested at the moment and therefore their API is a subject to change. These methods will be finalized later as a need arises. If you want to rely on any of the following methods please contact the the mod_perl development mailing list so we can help each other take the steps necessary to shift the method to an officially supported API.
APR::Socket
filepath_name_get
META: Autogenerated - needs to be reviewed/completed
[We have File::Spec and File::Basename for this purpose, I can't see why this api is needed]
return the final element of the pathname
$ret = filepath_name_get($pathname);
$pathname
The path to get the final element of
$ret
the final element of the path
For example:
"/foo/bar/gum" => "gum" "/foo/bar/gum/" => "" "gum" => "gum" "bs\\path\\stuff" => "stuff"
password_get
Display a prompt and read in the password from stdin.
$ret = password_get($prompt, $pwbuf, $bufsize);
$prompt
The prompt to display
$pwbuf
Buffer to store the password
$bufsize
The length of the password buffer.
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