md5,des etc..

["Arni Raghu" <arni caip rutgers edu>]

Hoping that this is not OT..

Hi
I want to write a simple perl script to see if my system supports des or md5
as the password encryption scheme..what is the easiest way..

one of course is to look at the /etc/shadow file and then parsing the passwd
field, any better way..??

Thx,
Arni