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NAME

Catalyst::Authentication::AuthTkt - shim for Apache::AuthTkt

SYNOPSIS

 # in your MyApp.pm file
 use Catalyst qw(
     Authentication
 );

 # Configure an authentication realm in your app config:
 <authentication>
    default_realm authtkt
    auth_url http://yourdomain/login
    <realms>
        <authtkt>
            class AuthTkt
            <credential>
                class AuthTkt
            </credential>
            <store>
                class AuthTkt
                
                cookie_name auth_tkt
                
                # either the path to your Apache .conf file
                #conf path/to/httpd.conf
                
                # or set the secret string explicitly
                #secret fee fi fo fum
                
                # these next two are the Apache::AuthTkt defaults
                timeout 2h
                timeout_refresh 0.50
                
                # explicitly define a domain for the cookie
                # NOTE the leading dot means every host in the subdomain
                domain .foo.bar.com
                
                # mock a user -- this effectively turns off
                # the auth system. *** for development only ***
                <mock>
                    id joeuser
                    tokens foo
                    tokens bar
                </mock>
                    

            </store>
        </authtkt>
    </realms>
 </authentication>
                    

 # and then in your Root controller 'auto':
 sub auto : Private {
     my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
             
     # validate the ticket and update ticket and session if necessary
     return 1 if $c->authenticate;
        
     # no valid login found so redirect.
     $c->response->redirect( $c->config->{authentication_url} );
        
     # tell Catalyst to abort processing.
     return 0;
 }

 # and then elsewhere in your app
 if ($c->user_exists) {
    $c->log->debug("Logged in as user " . $c->user->id);
    #...
 }

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the Catalyst::Authentication API for Apache::AuthTkt version 0.08 and later.

This module does not implement any features for creating the AuthTkt cookie. Instead, this module simply checks that the AuthTkt cookie is present and unpacks it in accordance with the Authentication API. The intention is that you create/set the AuthTkt cookie independently of the Authentication code, whether in a separate application (e.g. the mod_auth_tkt login.cgi script) or via the Apache::AuthTkt module directly.

mod_auth_tkt http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/mod_auth_tkt/ is a single-sign-on C module for Apache. Using this module, however, you could implement all the features of mod_auth_tkt, in Perl, using any web server where you can deploy Catalyst, including front-end-proxy/back-end-mod_perl and lighttpd situations.

AUTHOR

Peter Karman, <karman at cpan dot org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-catalyst-authentication-authtkt at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Catalyst-Authentication-AuthTkt. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Catalyst::Authentication::AuthTkt

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute http://www.msi.umn.edu/ sponsored the development of this software.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.

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