NAME

User::Identity::System - physical system of a person

INHERITANCE

 User::Identity::System
   is an User::Identity::Item

SYNOPSIS

 use User::Identity;
 use User::Identity::System;
 my $me   = User::Identity->new(...);
 my $server = User::Identity::System->new(...);
 $me->add(system => $server);

 # Simpler

 use User::Identity;
 my $me   = User::Identity->new(...);
 my $addr = $me->add(system => ...);

DESCRIPTION

The User::Identity::System object contains the description of the user's presence on a system. The systems are collected by an User::Identity::Collection::Systems object.

Nearly all methods can return undef.

METHODS

Constructors

User::Identity::System->new([NAME], OPTIONS)

Create a new system. You can specify a name as first argument, or in the OPTION list. Without a specific name, the organization is used as name.

 Option     --Defined in     --Default
 description  User::Identity::Item  undef
 hostname                      'localhost'
 location                      undef
 name         User::Identity::Item  <required>
 os                            undef
 parent       User::Identity::Item  undef
 password                      undef
 username                      undef

. description => STRING

. hostname => DOMAIN

The hostname of the described system. It is prefered to use full system names, not abbreviations. For instance, you can better use www.tux.aq than www to avoid confusion.

. location => NICKNAME|OBJECT

The NICKNAME of a location which is defined for the same user. You can also specify a User::Identity::Location OBJECT.

. name => STRING

. os => STRING

The name of the operating system which is run on the server. It is adviced to use the names as used by Perl's $^O variable. See the perlvar man-page for this variable, and perlport for the possible values.

. parent => OBJECT

. password => STRING

The password to be used to login. This password must be un-encoded: directly usable. Be warned that storing un-encoded passwords is a high security list.

. username => STRING

The username to be used to login to this host.

Attributes

$obj->description

See User::Identity::Item/"Attributes"

$obj->hostname

$obj->location

Returns the object which describes to which location this system relates. The location may be used to find the name of the organization involved, or to create a signature. If no location is specified, undef is returned.

$obj->name([NEWNAME])

See User::Identity::Item/"Attributes"

$obj->os

$obj->password

$obj->username

Collections

$obj->add(COLLECTION, ROLE)

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->addCollection(OBJECT | ([TYPE], OPTIONS))

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->collection(NAME)

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->find(COLLECTION, ROLE)

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->parent([PARENT])

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->removeCollection(OBJECT|NAME)

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->type

User::Identity::System->type

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

$obj->user

See User::Identity::Item/"Collections"

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: $object is not a collection.

The first argument is an object, but not of a class which extends User::Identity::Collection.

Error: Cannot load collection module for $type ($class).

Either the specified $type does not exist, or that module named $class returns compilation errors. If the type as specified in the warning is not the name of a package, you specified a nickname which was not defined. Maybe you forgot the 'require' the package which defines the nickname.

Error: Creation of a collection via $class failed.

The $class did compile, but it was not possible to create an object of that class using the options you specified.

Error: Don't know what type of collection you want to add.

If you add a collection, it must either by a collection object or a list of options which can be used to create a collection object. In the latter case, the type of collection must be specified.

Warning: No collection $name

The collection with $name does not exist and can not be created.

LICENSE

Copyrights 2003,2004,2007 by Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>. For other contributors see Changes.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html