User::simple provides a very simple framework for validating users, managing their sessions and storing a minimal set of information (this is, a meaningful user login/password pair and the user's name) via a database. the sessions can be used as identifiers for i.e. cookies on a web system. the passwords are stored as md5 hashes (this means, the password is not stored in clear text).

user::simple was originally developed with a postgresql database in mind, but should work with any dbi handle, be it from a real database (i.e. postgresql, firebird, mysql) or from a file-based one (dbd::csv, dbd::xbase, dbd::dbm, etc.)