HTTPD::GroupAdmin(3)

NAME
HTTPD::GroupAdmin - Management of HTTP server group databases

SYNOPSIS
    use HTTPD::GroupAdmin ();

DESCRIPTION
This software is meant to provide a generic interface that hides the inconsistencies across HTTP server implementations of user and group databases.

METHODS

new ()
    Here's where we find out what's different about your server.

    Some examples:

        @DBM = (DBType => 'DBM',
                DB     => '.htgroup',
                Server => 'apache');

        $group = new HTTPD::GroupAdmin @DBM;

    This creates an object who's database is a DBM file named '.htgroup', in a format that the Apache server understands.

        @Text = (DBType => 'Text',
                 DB     => '.htgroup',
                 Server => 'ncsa');

        $group = new HTTPD::GroupAdmin @Text;

    This creates an object who's database is a plain text file named '.htgroup', in a format that the NCSA server understands.

    Note: Support is not yet availible for SQL servers

    Full list of constructor attributes:

    Note: Attribute names are case-insensitive

    Name - Group name

    DBType - The type of database, one of 'DBM', 'Text', or 'SQL' (Default is 'DBM')

    DB - The database name (Default is '.htpasswd' for DBM & Text databases)

    Server - HTTP server name (Default is the generic class, that works with NCSA, Apache and possibly others)

    Note: run 'perl t/support.t matrix' to see what support is currently availible

    Path - Relative DB files are resolved to this value (Default is '.')

    Locking - Boolean, Lock Text and DBM files (Default is true)

    Debug - Boolean, Turn on debug mode

    Specific to DBM files:

    DBMF - The DBM file implementation to use (Default is 'NDBM')

    Flags - The read, write and create flags. There are four modes: rwc - the default, open for reading, writing and creating. rw - open for reading and writing. r - open for reading only. w - open for writing only.

    Mode - The file creation mode, defaults to '0644'

    From here on out, things should look the same for everyone.

add($username[,$groupname])
    Add user $username to group $groupname, or whatever the 'Name' attribute is set to.

    Fails if $username exists in the database

        if($group->add('dougm', 'www-group')) {
            print "Welcome!\n";
        }

delete($username[,$groupname])
    Delete user $username from group $groupname, or whatever the 'Name' attribute is set to.

        if($group->delete('dougm')) {
            print "He's gone from the group\n";
        }

exists($groupname, [$username])
    True if $groupname is found in the database

        if($group->exists('web-heads')) {
            die "oh no!";
        }
        if($group->exists($groupname, $username) {
            #$username is a member of $groupname
        }

list([$groupname])
    Returns a list of group names, or users in a group if '$name' is present.

    @groups = $group->list;

    @users = $group->list('web-heads');

user()
    Short cut for creating an HTTPD::UserAdmin object. All applicable attributes are inherited, but can be overridden.

        $user = $group->user();

    (See HTTPD::UserAdmin)

convert(@Attributes)
    Convert a database.

        #not yet

remove($groupname)
    Remove group $groupname from the database

name($groupname)
    Change the value of 'Name' attribute.

        $group->name('bew-ediw-dlrow');

debug($boolean)
    Turn debugging on or off

lock([$timeout]) =item unlock()
    These methods give you control of the locking mechanism.

        $group = new HTTPD::GroupAdmin (Locking => 0); #turn off auto-locking
        $group->lock; #lock the object's database
        $group->add($username,$passwd); #write while database is locked
        $group->unlock; release the lock

db($dbname);
    Select a different database.

        $olddb = $group->db($newdb);
        print "Now we're reading and writing '$newdb', done with '$olddb'n\";

flags([$flags])
    Get or set read, write, create flags.

commit
    Commit changes to disk (for Text files).

SEE ALSO
HTTPD::UserAdmin(3)

AUTHOR
Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Doug MacEachern

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.