User::Simple - Simple user sessions management

User::Simple provides a very simple framework for validating users, managing their sessions and storing a minimal set of information (this is, a meaningful user login/password pair) and allowing for transparent access of arbitrary data (i.e. the user's name, privilege level, etc.) via a database. The sessions can be used as identifiers for i.e. cookies on a Web system. The passwords are stored as MD5 hashes (this means, the password is not stored in clear text).

User::Simple includes User::Simple::Admin, which provides the basic functionalities to manage the users.

User::Simple was originally developed with a PostgreSQL database in mind, but should work with any DBD, even those not implemented with a real RDBMS (i.e. XBase, CSV, etc).

INSTALLATION

Installing this module is like installing any standard Perl module, this means:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

Date::Calc
Digest::MD5
DBI

DBI is not called directly from within the module, but it is required in order to do anything with it.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005-2009 by Gunnar Wolf
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.