Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

D.4. Authentication and Authorization

Apache::AuthenDBI

Apache::AuthenDBI authenticates users against a database using Perl's DBI. Supported DBI drivers include Mysql, Oracle, Sybase, and many more listed at http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/.

Author

Edmund Mergl, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthzDBI

Apache::AuthzDBI provides authorization against a database using Perl's DBI.

Author

Edmund Mergl, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthCookie

Apache::AuthCookie provides authentication via HTTP cookies. It is a base class module whose subclasses implement the methods for verifying the user's credentials and session key.

Author

Eric Bartley, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthenCache

Apache::AuthenCache is used to cut down on expensive authentication database lookups by caching the results in memory. It was designed with Apache::AuthenDBI in mind but works just as well with any authentication module.

Author

Jason Bodnar, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthLDAP

Apache::AuthLDAP implements authentication and authorization against an LDAP database. In addition to LDAP groups, authorization may be based on arbitrary LDAP attributes.

Author

Clayton Donley, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthenNIS

Apache::AuthenNIS authenticates users against an NIS database using the Net::NIS module.

Author

Demetrios E. Paneras, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthenNISPlus

Apache::AuthenNISPlus authenticates users against an NIS+ database.

Author

Valerie Delane, [e-mail]

Apache::AuthzNIS

Apache::AuthzNIS authorizes ...