Authen-Credential This module offers abstractions of credentials, i.e. something that can be used to authenticate. It allows the creation and manipulation of credentials. In particular, it defines a standard string representation (so that credentials can be given to external programs as command line options), a standard structured representation (so that credentials can be stored in structured configuration files or using JSON) and "preparators" that can transform credentials into ready-to-use data for well known targets. Different authentication schemes (aka credential types) are supported. This package currently supports "none", "plain" and "x509" but others can be added by providing the supporting code in a separate module. A Python implementation of the same credential abstractions is available at https://github.com/cern-mig/python-auth-credential so credentials can be shared between different programming languages. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Authen::Credential perldoc Authen::Credential::none perldoc Authen::Credential::plain perldoc Authen::Credential::x509 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) CERN 2011-2015 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.