Hello All, A new version of the Catalyst Authentication plugin is winging it's way to CPAN (0.100091.) This update includes the excellent 'Catalyst::Authentication::Realm::Progressive' realm written by J. Shirley.
The Progressive Realm allows you to, with a single call to $c- >authenticate(), make multiple authentication attempts one at a time, until one of them succeeds (or they all fail.) This allows you to check multiple authentication realms to attempt to authenticate a user. Some samples of how you might use this are: 1) Legacy authentication / migration to new system. If you can't merge the db's for whatever reason, you could try to authenticate against the new system, followed by the legacy system. 2) Temporary passwords - If you have a separate auth method for 'temporary' auth - forgot password - initial confirmation, etc, you can attempt to auth against the temporary password realm, then the main db. (or the other way around) 3) Auth against a local system, followed by a remote system if the user is not found. I'm sure you can come up with hundreds of other uses. Please thank J. Shirley for his excellent module. Jay _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
