Introducing Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Authen::Simple
Just got another module out!
This module isn't at all complicated. I'm even surprised that anyone hasn't already written it! Authen::Simple is a great authentication framework (thanks to the excellent work of Christian Hansen). We've been using it at CAPSiDE for quite some time now, but we hadn't developed a Catalyst module for it because we are normally using mod_auth_tkt, so our Catalyst apps aren't authenicating directly. I recall the need for Catalyst apps to authenticate against external datastores from the mailing lists, and a recent conversation with Ton Voon made me think that it's time to write the module so Catalyst can do fancy authetication
Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Authen::Simple is just glue between Authen::Simple and Catalyst. It reads the Catalyst App config, instances the appropiate Authen::Simple objects, and then just calls autheticate on the objects when you authenticate from within Catalyst.
It's that simple... Authen::Simple...