in reply to Re^2: Reading a password from the user
in thread Reading a password from the user

So? Did you actually bother to look up what perldoc -f crypt displays? Or did it give you more satisfaction to write a stupid reply than to do some trivial research. Let me quote it for you:
Here's an example that makes sure that whoever runs this program knows their own password: $pwd = (getpwuid($<))[1]; system "stty -echo"; print "Password: "; chomp($word = <STDIN>); print "\n"; system "stty echo"; if (crypt($word, $pwd) ne $pwd) { die "Sorry...\n"; } else { print "ok\n"; }

Abigail