Auth

Creating an authentication system.

The PEAR::Auth package provides methods for creating an authentication system using PHP. Currently it supports the following storage containers to read/write the login data: * All databases supported by the PEAR database layer * All databases supported by the MDB database layer * Plaintext files * LDAP servers * POP3 servers * IMAP servers * vpopmail accounts * RADIUS * SAMBA password files * SOAP MJ Martin Jansen mj@php.net lead jflemer James E. Flemer jflemer@acm.jhu.edu developer yavo Yavor Shahpasov yavo@siava.org lead 1.2.3 2003-09-08 PHP License stable * new Method to auth_container getUser() * New Auth_Container_File, using new File_Passwd class. Provided by Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> * Login/Logout callbacks now get a reference to auth * New Login Failed Callback added (method setFailedLoginCallback) * SOAP container patch to keep a reference to the Soap responce by Bruno Pedro <bpedro@co.sapo.pt> * Auth is now installed in /pear-dir/Auth.php instead of /pear-dir/Auth/Auth.php, an empty file /pear-dev/Auth/Auth.php wich includes Auth.php is added for BC * The contaner now gets a reference to the auth object ($auth->storage->_auth_obj) *Some patches from the pear-dev list bellow -maka3d@yahoo.com.br - Patch to use a method of the container in Auth_Container::verifyPassword -Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> - Patch to use variable session variable name, untill now the variable auth was used -Marcos Neves <maka3d@yahoo.com.br> - Avaoid error when calling getAuthData() before the login File_Passwd Net_POP3 DB MDB Auth_RADIUS File_SMBPasswd 1.2.2 2003-07-29 PHP License stable * Added support for passing contaner as an object * Added fix when db_fileds is * * Added Test Suite (experimental) * Added generic support for arbitrary password crypting functions different than MD5, DES and plain text. (Patch by Tom Anderson) * Added new MDB storage container written by Lorenzo Alberton * Added new Container for SAMBA password files (SMBPasswd)