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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:35:17 +0100
From: Lee Johnston <ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>,
        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: HTML Password changer
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On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 06:09:22PM +0800, 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?

I did a while ago, I used the perl function substr, if your usign PERL5 see
the perldoc on substr (perldoc -f substr | more).


Lee.

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