> sneaking in a space or dropping non-printable characters, since crypt > can return string with any number from 0-255 (the standard ASCII range, > or char size, depending on how you want to look at it...)
That shouldn't be a problem, everything crypt outputs is printable. crypt(3): The returned value points to the encrypted password, a series of 13 printable ASCII characters (the first two characters rep- Tom should have his php echo the results of the crypt and the value he is comparing it to, etc... try to see what isn't matching up. Because it really should be working. --Palrich.
