Kirk Ismay wrote: > 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.
getpwnam.passwd = x as it is written in /etc/passwd. getspwnam.passwd = encrypted password. That's how I seem to recall it works in C so it should work the same way in Perl. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]