Description:

CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication adds the ability to authenticate
users in your the CGI::Application manpage modules. It imports one method
called 'authen' into your CGI::Application module. Through the authen
method you can call all the methods of the
CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication plugin.

There are two main decisions that you need to make when using this module.
How will the usernames and password be verified (ie from a database, LDAP,
etc...), and how can we keep the knowledge that a user has already logged
in persistent, so that they will not have to enter their credentials again
on the next request (ie how do we 'Store' the authentication information
across requests).

Choosing a Driver
There are three drivers that are included with the distribution. Also,
there is built in support for all of the Authen::Simple modules (search
CPAN for Authen::Simple for more information). This should be enough to
cover everyone's needs.