Hi Ron, On 18 Feb 2003 09:02:14 -0500 Ron Culler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am writing a perl module that will change the users passwords after > verifing the old password. What I'm looking for is the method used by > vpopmail to generate the password. My goal is to create a perl version > of this. Is it _that difficulty_ as a person that wants to develop something on top of vpopmail to have a look at the source code? vpasswd.c, the source code for vpasswd, used for (native) password changing reveals: a call to 'vgetpasswd()'. A short grep shows: declared in vpopmail.h, defined in vpopmail.c. 'vgetpasswd()' itself calls 'mkpasswd3()', "hidden" in the same file. And 'mkpasswd3()' makes use of crypt(), a standard unix library function to encrypt passwords one-way ... as any good perl documentation mentions too. Are you sure you're the right one to develope something _that_ sensible as "password checking and changing" if you ain't able to figure out _from the source code_ that the standard library call is used??? -- Ciao, Peter
