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Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> Hiyall,
> 
> I have the necessary code to encrypt the new password and so on, but what
> about decrypting the old one, and comparing to the entered one, using
> Perl?
> 
> Anyone done it?

If your on about passwords from /etc/passwd etc. - you can't decrypt them,
it's one way encryption...

You have to take the password the user has given you, encrypt it - and them
compare the result with the encrypted password on the system...

Regards,

Karl

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