Re: untainting passwords

[Peter Scott]

At 01:07 PM 8/19/01 -0400, Kurt Edmiston wrote:
>Hi, can someone tell me the proper syntax for untainting a UNIX password?
>
>if ($password_T =~ /(  )/) {$password = $1;} else {$password=' ';}
>
>What goes in the ( ) ?

Show us the operation you want to perform on the password which fails when 
used with tainted data.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com


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