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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

crypt

Synopsis

crypt string, salt
                  

Used by the passwd function on Unix systems to produce a unique 13-character string (stored in the system’s password file) from the first 8 characters of the given string and the 2-character salt. The Perl function operates the same way and returns a 13-character string with the first 2 characters as the salt. crypt uses a modified version of the Data Encryption Standard, which produces a one-way encryption; the resulting string cannot be decrypted to determine the original string. crypt can be used to check that a password is correct by comparing the string from the function to the string found in /etc/passwd (if you have permission to do this):

if (crypt ($guess, $pass) eq $pass) {
       # guess is correct
   }

The variable $pass is the password string from the password file. crypt merely uses the first two characters from this string for the saltargument.

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