perl getpwnam returns x

[Kirk Ismay]

I have just copied one of my perl programs from an old slink system to a new 
machine running potato. Its a perl program for managing users and such.

On slink, getpwnam(foo) returns the hash for the password, on potato i get an x.
Both are using shadow passwords.
Perl Version on slink:
perl, version 5.004_04
Perl Version on potato:
perl, version 5.005_03
Any suggestions would be helpful. I'm running the script as root in both cases 
from a cron job.

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Sincerely, Kirk Ismay
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