NAME Authen::Users LANGUAGE Pure Perl ABSTRACT Local DBI based user password authentication DESCRIPTION General password authentication using DBI-capable databases. Currently supports MySQL and SQLite databases. The default is to use a SQLite database to store and access user information. This module is not an authentication protocol. For that see something such as Authen::AuthenDBI. SYNOPSIS use Authen::Users; my $authen = new Athen::Users(dbtype => 'SQLite', dbname => 'mydbname'); my $a_ok = $authen->authenticate($group, $user, $password); my $result = $authen->add_user( $group, $user, $password, $fullname, $email, $question, $answer); Use this set of instructions to install the module... perl Makefile.PL make make test make install If you are on a windows box you should use 'nmake' rather than 'make'.