Jay and J, Sounds great. Thank you both very much.
Kennedy On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jason Kuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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