Thanks for the info concerning salt. Very helpful.

I understood from before that the salt was inbedded within the password itself, as the first two characters of the password. It shouldn't matter what the salt is, cause any person or program can find out what it is through the first two characters.

Yet my passwords are still not being recognized. The browser prompts the user for the password, but nothing seems to work.

Documentation on Apache's web site doesn't cover manipulation of .htpasswd files at all, other than generating them with the htpasswd program.

Thanks for all your help, but this project is going to have to go on the back burner for awhile... there's other CGI programs to be written!

John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

In reply to Re: Perl and Apache Configuration Files by newrisedesigns
in thread Perl and Apache Configuration Files by newrisedesigns

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