APR::Util - Perl API for Various APR Utilities
use APR::Util ();
$ok = password_validate($passwd, $hash);
Various APR utilities that don't fit into any other group.
"APR::Util" provides the following functions and/or methods:
Validate an encrypted password hash against a plain text password (with lots of
restrictions and peculiarities).
$ok = password_validate($passwd, $hash);
- arg1: $passwd ( string )
- Plain text password string
- arg2: $hash ( string )
- Encrypted or encoded hash. See below for supported hash
formats.
- ret: $ok ( boolean )
- The password either matches or not.
- since: 2.0.00
The function handles the output of the following functions (it knows to tell md5
and sha1 from the others, since they are have a special pattern recognized by
apr):
- •
- md5
generated by "apr_md5_encode()" (for which at the moment we have
no perl glue, ask if you need it).
- •
- sha1
generated by "apr_sha1_base64()" (for which at the moment we have
no perl glue, ask if you need it).
and it's available only since Apache 2.0.50
- •
- crypt
On all but the following platforms: MSWin32, beos and NetWare. Therefore you
probably don't want to use that feature, unless you know that your code
will never end up running on those listed platforms.
Moreover on these three platforms if that function sees that the hash is not
of md5 and sha1 formats, it'll do a clear to clear text matching, always
returning success, no matter what the hashed value is.
Warning: double check that you understand what this function does and does not
before using it.
"APR::Socket" also provides auto-generated Perl interface for a few
other methods which aren't tested at the moment and therefore their API is a
subject to change. These methods will be finalized later as a need arises. If
you want to rely on any of the following methods please contact the the
mod_perl development mailing list so we can help each other take the steps
necessary to shift the method to an officially supported API.
META: Autogenerated - needs to be reviewed/completed
[We have File::Spec and File::Basename for this purpose, I can't see why this
api is needed]
return the final element of the pathname
$ret = filepath_name_get($pathname);
- arg1: $pathname ( string )
- The path to get the final element of
- ret: $ret ( string )
- the final element of the path
For example:
"/foo/bar/gum" => "gum"
"/foo/bar/gum/" => ""
"gum" => "gum"
"bs\\path\\stuff" => "stuff"
- since: subject to change
META: Autogenerated - needs to be reviewed/completed
Display a prompt and read in the password from stdin.
$ret = password_get($prompt, $pwbuf, $bufsize);
- arg1: $prompt ( string )
- The prompt to display
- arg2: $pwbuf ( string )
- Buffer to store the password
- arg3: $bufsize (number)
- The length of the password buffer.
- ret: $ret (integer)
- since: subject to change
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