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The Authen::PAAS distribution provides a Perl API for authenticating and
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authorizing users of computing services. Its design is inspired by
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existing pluggable authentication services such as PAM and Java's JAAS, so
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people familiar with those two services should be comfortable with the
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concepts in Authen::PAAS. At its heart, Authen::PAAS provides a login
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service, with pluggable modules for performing different authentication
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schemes. The pluggable framework enables the system administrator, rather
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than the application developer to define what method is used to
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authentication with a particular application.
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One might ask, why not just use PAM directly via the existing Authen::PAM
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Perl bindings. While this works well for applications which wish to
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authenticate against real UNIX user accounts (eg FTP, Telnet, SSH), it is
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not particularly well suited to applications with 'virtualized' user
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accounts. For example, a web application may maintain a set of virtual
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user accounts in a database, or a chat server, may maintain a set of user
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accounts in a text configuration file. Since it merely delegates through
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to the underlying C libraries, the Authen::PAM module does not provide a
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convenient means to write new authentication schemes in Perl. Thus the
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Authen::PAAS distribution provides a pure Perl API for authentication.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Authen-PAAS
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Author: Daniel Berrange <dan@berrange.com>
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