[Catalyst] How to extend authentication to use other DB fields?

[Evan Carroll]

> I would like to extend my autentication to accept other fields:
> with $c->authenticate({ fileld1 => [..], field2 => [...], fieldd => [...] });

...

> Do I have to create my own Catalyst::Authentication::Credential plugin?

No, it already does that... per the docs:

    The first, and most common, method is simple retrieval. As its
name implies simple
    retrieval allows you to simply to provide the column => value
pairs that should be
    used to locate the user in question. An example of this usage is below:

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