[97293] in RedHat Linux List
Re: OT: Perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Liles)
Mon Nov 2 13:33:30 1998
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:52:46 -0500
From: Bryan Liles <Bryan_Liles@dfree.com>
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In-Reply-To: <19981030013305.23807.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Joe Tseng on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:33:05PM -0800
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Thus spake Joe Tseng (joe_tseng@hotmail.com):
> 1. I am interested in refreshing my Perl DB programming skills, so I
> have been looking for a PostgreSQL interpreter for Perl (perhaps similar
> to oraperl which I used previously). I went to www.postgresql.org but I
> could not find anything of use. Everything else I have found was for
> Postgres95.
ok try looking here:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/07_Database_Interfaces/Postgres/
>
> 2. Is there some library function for Perl that can encode passwords to
> use for matching strings against /etc/passwd?
>
yep...
have a look at this short example...
#!/usr/bin/perl
$user = $ARGV[0];
$pass = $ARGV[1];
$pwd = (getpwnam $user)[1];
$salt = substr $pwd, 0, 2;
print crypt($pass, $salt), "\n";
> Joe Tseng
if you have any questions feel free to send me some email...
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