Mike,
There's a good example of a password script in Learning Perl on Win32
Systems page 17, not very pretty and a bit tedious, but easy to understand.
Regards,
Sally
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From: Mike Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 13 September 2001 14:32
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>What resources can I look at to start writing a password generator from a
>complete newbie level of knowledge??
If you want to mimic Unix passwd, do something like:
$seed = (some randomly generated bit of something);
$plaintext_password = "password";
$encrypted_password = crypt($p