# --
# Kernel/System/CustomerAuth.pm - provides the authentification 
# Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Martin Edenhofer <martin+code@otrs.org>
# --
# $Id: CustomerAuth.pm,v 1.5 2004/01/10 12:48:22 martin Exp $
# --
# This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, see 
# the enclosed file COPYING for license information (GPL). If you 
# did not receive this file, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
# --

package Kernel::System::CustomerAuth; 

use strict;

use vars qw(@ISA $VERSION);
$VERSION = '$Revision: 1.5 $';
$VERSION =~ s/^\$.*:\W(.*)\W.+?$/$1/;

=head1 NAME

Kernel::System::CustomerAuth - customer autentification module.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

The autentification module for the customer interface.

=head1 PUBLIC INTERFACE

=over 4

=cut

=item new()

create a object 
 
  use Kernel::Config;
  use Kernel::System::Log;
  use Kernel::System::DB;
  use Kernel::System::CustomerAuth;

  my $ConfigObject = Kernel::Config->new();
  my $LogObject    = Kernel::System::Log->new(
      ConfigObject => $ConfigObject,
  );
  my $DBObject = Kernel::System::DB->new( 
      ConfigObject => $ConfigObject,
      LogObject => $LogObject,
  );
  my $AuthObject = Kernel::System::CustomerAuth->new(
      ConfigObject => $ConfigObject,
      LogObject => $LogObject,
      DBObject => $DBObject,
  );

=cut

# --
sub new {
    my $Type = shift;
    my %Param = @_;

    # allocate new hash for object
    my $Self = {}; 
    bless ($Self, $Type);

    # check needed objects
    foreach (qw(LogObject ConfigObject DBObject)) {
        $Self->{$_} = $Param{$_} || die "No $_!";
    }

    # load generator auth module
    my $GeneratorModule = $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get('Customer::AuthModule')
      || 'Kernel::System::CustomerAuth::DB';
    eval "require $GeneratorModule";

    $Self->{Backend} = $GeneratorModule->new(%Param);

    return $Self;
}
# --

=item GetOption()

Get module options. Currently exists just one option, "PreAuth".

    if ($AuthObject->GetOption(What => 'PreAuth')) {
        print "No login screen is needed. Autentificaion is based on some other options. E. g. $ENV{REMOTE_USER}\n";
    }

=cut

sub GetOption {
    my $Self = shift;
    my %Param = @_;
    return $Self->{Backend}->GetOption(%Param);
}
# --

=item Auth()

The autentificaion function.

    if ($AuthObject->Auth(User => $User, Pw => $Pw)) {
        print "Auth ok!\n";
    }
    else {
        print "Auth invalid!\n";
    }

=cut

sub Auth {
    my $Self = shift;
    my %Param = @_;
    return $Self->{Backend}->Auth(%Param);
}
# --
1;

=head1 TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This software is part of the OTRS project (http://otrs.org/).  

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, see
the enclosed file COPYING for license information (GPL). If you
did not receive this file, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

=cut

=head1 VERSION

$Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2004/01/10 12:48:22 $

=cut
