Hello Greg,
You should get the Shadows extension, available from
ftp://ftp.eur.nl/pub/homebrew/Shadow-0.01.tar.gz
and install it as per the instructions provided.
Then it's just a simple call at the top fo your script
Use Shadows;
and you can then use getspnam instead of getpwnam to return
I am having a problem using perl to authorize users
for a web project I am working on.
I am using getpwnam $user[1]; to
get the users password to compare to the crypted version of it.
However when running the perl script, I only get x,
the shadowed version of it. To get the right crypted
