Hello, and thanks in advance. The short version is, how do I use the
self_check method to validate a user? I believe it involves extending
Catalyst::Authentication::User, and I am having trouble figuring out how
to do that.
The longer version is that I have an existing system I am trying to
convert over to Catalyst that has been running on MySQL for over a
decade. All the user passwords are stored using OLD_PASSWORD (not SHA1
like they are by default now), and making thousands of users change
their passwords is not an option. So I think my approach should be to
somehow implement check_password to use the MySQL OLD_PASSWORD function
to authenticate the password.
Also, the application has a decade worth of battle hardened SQL queries,
so I am not going to be using any standard ORM like DBIx or DBIC,
therefore I am trying to use Catalyst::Model::DBI for authentication. My
configuration is below, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
authentication => {
default_realm => 'users',
realms => {
users => {
credential => {
class => 'Password',
password_field => 'Password',
password_type => 'self_check',
},
store => {
class => 'DBI',
user_class => 'MyApp::DAO::User',
user_table => 'User',
user_key => 'User',
user_name => 'UserName',
},
},
},
},
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