NAME

LCFG::Authorize - perl interface to the LCFG authorization system

VERSION

This documentation refers to LCFG::Authorize version 1.0.11

SYNOPSIS

use LCFG::Authorize;

my $authority = LCFG::Authorize->new();

$ok = $authority->check( $user, @capabilities );

DESCRIPTION

METHODS

new

Create a new instance of the interface.

check( $user, @capabilities )

Check whether the user has any of the capabilities listed in @capabilities

aname2lname($principal)

Convert a users authentication name to a local (Unix) username.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There are no known bugs in this software. Please report any problems to the author (see below for details), patches are very welcome.

PLATFORMS

Solaris9, Fedora3, Fedora5, Fedora6, Scientific5

AUTHOR

Paul Anderson <dcspaul@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This code is copyright of the University of Edinburgh, it can be distributed under the terms of the GPL license version 2 or greater.