This is a generic authentication module superclass. It
implements behaviour that will be required in most authentication modules,
and therefore most modules should inherit from it. Most simple
authentication can be handled merely by overriding the
findUser() method, which is expected to find and
return a User object given a user name. The
AuthGeneric::handle_request handles all the cascading
of DEFAULT users, checking of check items, assembling replies etc. All you
have to do is find the user in your database and return it in
findUser().
AuthGeneric only responds to
Access-Request messages. Accounting-Requests are accepted but ignored
(i.e. it does nothing with them). If you want to do something with
accounting messages (other than what Realm.pm does,
such as logging to the accounting log file or wtmp file), you will
probably want to override handle_request, pass
Access-Request messages to
$self->SUPER::handle_request(), and process
Accounting- Request messages yourself.
If your handler needs to fork
so it can do a “slow” authentication or accounting task, you can call
AuthGeneric::handlerFork, which will arrange for the
handler to fork(2), and also arrange for the child to
exit after handling is complete.
AuthGeneric has a number of other
methods that you can override for specific functions like:
log($p, $s) Logs a message that originated in
that class. $p is a message priority (see
Log.pm). $s is a message.
The base class behaviour is to log to the all the logging systems
configured into Radiator by calling main::log($p,
$s).
