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samwilson/kohana\_dbauth
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A driver for the Kohana Auth module, to authenticate as a database user.

1.0.0(11y ago)2341MITPHP

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DBAuth: Kohana Auth driver for Database authentication
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[](#dbauth-kohana-auth-driver-for-database-authentication)

Database-user Auth driver, used to authenticate as a user of the DBMS (rather than a user whose credentials are stored in the database).

Usage
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[](#usage)

To use, simply:

- set `'driver' => 'db'` in the `APPPATH/config/auth.php` config file,
- do not set the username or password in the`APPPATH/config/database.php`config file,
- and make sure a valid database name is given in that latter file.

For example, a minimal `APPPATH/config/auth.php` looks like this:

```