NAME¶
DBIx::Password - Allows you to create a global password file for DB passwords
SYNOPSIS¶
use DBIx::Password;
my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect($user);
my $dbh = DBIx::Password->connect_cached($user);
$dbh->getDriver;
DBIx::Password::getDriver($user);
DBIx::Password::checkVirtualUser($user);
DBIx::Password::clearConfig();
DBIx::Password::readConfig("$ENV{HOME}/.my.secret.file");
DESCRIPTION¶
Don't you hate keeping track of database passwords and such throughout your
scripts? How about the problem of changing those passwords on a mass scale?
This module is one possible solution. It stores all your virtual users and
data in /etc/dbix-password.conf. For each user you need to specify the
database module to use, the database connect string, the username and the
password. You will have to give a name to this virtual user. You can add as
many as you like.
I would recommend that if you are only using this with web applications that you
change the final permissions on this package after it is installed in
site_perl such that only the webserver can read it.
A method called getDriver has been added so that you can determine what driver
is being used (handy for working out database indepence issues).
If you want to find out if the virtual user is valid, you can call the class
method
checkVirtualUser(). It returns true (1) if the username is
valid, and zero if not.
Once your are done you can use the connect method (or the connect_cache method)
that comes with DBIx-Password and just specify one of the virtual users you
defined while making the module.
BTW I learned the bless hack that is used from Apache::DBI so some credit should
go to the authors of that module. This is a rewrite of the module Tangent::DB
that I did for slashcode.
If your program does not need the system-wide information stored in the
/etc/dbix-password.conf file, you may use the
clearConfig() and
readConfig() functions to get the data from another source. At any
time,
readConfig() may also be used to merge the data from another file
into the currently-loaded configuration.
Hope you enjoy it.
HOME¶
To find out more information look at:
http://www.tangent.org/DBIx-Password/
AUTHOR¶
Brian Aker, brian@tangent.org
SEE ALSO¶
perl(1).
DBI(3).