Introduction to Slauth

• name is a contraction of SBAY Local Authentication system

• Perl module available on CPAN

• Apache authentication/authorization module in mod_perl

• Slauth::Register::Mailman allows self-registration by mailman subscribers

• plug-in architecture allows introduction of new capabilities

• site-wide installation is separately-configurable per web site/directory

• configurable by a central file and/or Apache configs/.htaccess files

• cookie or basic HTTP authentication