Re: Validating passwords via perl, Lil help please!

["Peter Kiem" <zordah zordah net>]

Hi Jake,

> That is basically what I have now to see if the user exists, but I can't use
> this because I'm using shadow passwords, the only thing that is in position
> 2 of /etc/passwd is x. So, anyone know of any other ways that I can achieve
> this? Thanks for the help though.

I did this by installing the poppassd daemon and then writing a PHP class to 
call poppassd with the username, old password and new password and poppassd 
did all the work for me :)

I guess you could write something similar in Perl.  If you want the PHP 
source code then let me know.

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