Authen-Credential

This module offers abstractions of credentials, i.e. something that
can be used to authenticate. It allows the creation and manipulation of
credentials. In particular, it defines a standard string representation
(so that credentials can be given to external programs as command line
options), a standard structured representation (so that credentials can
be stored in structured configuration files or using JSON) and
"preparators" that can transform credentials into ready-to-use data for
well known targets.

Different authentication schemes (aka credential types) are supported.
This package currently supports "none", "plain" and "x509" but others
can be added by providing the supporting code in a separate module.

A Python implementation of the same credential abstractions is available
at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/auth.credential so credentials can be
shared between different programming languages.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc Authen::Credential
    perldoc Authen::Credential::none
    perldoc Authen::Credential::plain
    perldoc Authen::Credential::x509

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 CERN

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
