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diff --git a/security/p5-Authen-PAAS/pkg-descr b/security/p5-Authen-PAAS/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1130b43b9c3b --- /dev/null +++ b/security/p5-Authen-PAAS/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The Authen::PAAS distribution provides a Perl API for authenticating and +authorizing users of computing services. Its design is inspired by +existing pluggable authentication services such as PAM and Java's JAAS, so +people familiar with those two services should be comfortable with the +concepts in Authen::PAAS. At its heart, Authen::PAAS provides a login +service, with pluggable modules for performing different authentication +schemes. The pluggable framework enables the system administrator, rather +than the application developer to define what method is used to +authentication with a particular application. + +One might ask, why not just use PAM directly via the existing Authen::PAM +Perl bindings. While this works well for applications which wish to +authenticate against real UNIX user accounts (eg FTP, Telnet, SSH), it is +not particularly well suited to applications with 'virtualized' user +accounts. For example, a web application may maintain a set of virtual +user accounts in a database, or a chat server, may maintain a set of user +accounts in a text configuration file. Since it merely delegates through +to the underlying C libraries, the Authen::PAM module does not provide a +convenient means to write new authentication schemes in Perl. Thus the +Authen::PAAS distribution provides a pure Perl API for authentication. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Authen-PAAS +Author: Daniel Berrange <dan@berrange.com> |