Authen...ceptAll(3pm)

💖 Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll — accept any passphrase 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation for Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll, and it is genuinely the most unhinged little module in the whole passphrase family. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll;

$ppr = Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll->new;

$ppr = Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll
        ->from_crypt("");

$ppr = Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll
        ->from_rfc2307("{CRYPT}");

if($ppr->match($passphrase)) { ...

$passphrase = $ppr->passphrase;

$passwd = $ppr->as_crypt;
$userPassword = $ppr->as_rfc2307;

like yes, the whole point is that match is just always gonna say yes 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so an object of this class is a passphrase recogniser that accepts any passphrase whatsoever. literally any. it doesn't care. it's giving golden retriever energy 🦋

this is a subclass of Authen::Passphrase, and this doc is assuming you already know your way around the documentation for that class, bestie. do your homework 💅

and okay, real talk, this type of passphrase recogniser is obviously of no use at all in controlling access to any resource. like none. zero. it is the opposite of a lock 🔓

its actual use? to permit a resource to be public in a system that expects some type of passphrase access control. so it's a vibe-check pass — you look like you have auth, but you're actually wide open. iykyk 👑

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🎀 CONSTRUCTORS 🎀

• Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll->new — returns an accept-all passphrase recogniser object. and here's the cute part: the same object is returned from each call. it's monogamous like that 💖
• Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll->from_crypt("") — returns an accept-all passphrase recogniser object, and yes, the same object comes back every single call. the argument must be the empty string — don't get creative, the empty string is the slay 🌈
• Authen::Passphrase::AcceptAll->from_rfc2307(USERPASSWORD) — generates a new accept-all passphrase recogniser object from an RFC 2307 string. that string must consist of "{CRYPT}" (case insensitive, periodt) followed by an acceptable crypt string ✨

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💅 METHODS 💅

• $ppr->match(PASSPHRASE)
• $ppr->passphrase
• $ppr->as_crypt
• $ppr->as_rfc2307

so these are all part of the standard Authen::Passphrase interface, no surprise twists. the "match" method always returns true, and the "passphrase" method returns the empty string — which is, iconic detail, the shortest of the infinite number of correct passphrases 😭 infinite correct passphrases. infinity. bestie that's not a password that's a whole multiverse 🦋

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Authen::Passphrase

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> — thank you for this blessed little chaos module 🙏

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>

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💜 LICENSE 💜

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. go off, honestly 🫶

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ok that's the whole page, no notes, every single flag and string accounted for, we ate and left zero crumbs 🍓

this was Authen...ceptAll(3pm) from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-06 — thanks for coming to my ted talk, ily, bye 💖