Try using the Shell package.
use Shell;
I was required to do NIS password authentication in my webpage, and here is the script that I used to figure it out. 
#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;

use Shell;

print "Enter your username: ";
  my $USER = <STDIN>;
  chop ($USER);

print "Password: ";
  my $PASS = <STDIN>;
  chop($PASS);


# ypmatch is a linux shell command.
my $str = ypmatch("$USER", "passwd");
  chop($str);

  my @Tmp = split(":", $str); 
  my $Tr = $Tmp[1];
  my $salt = substr($Tr, 0, 2);
  my $ENCPASS = crypt($PASS,$salt);



print "-------------------------------------------------\n";
print "String from yp:  $str\n";
print "Transformed to: $Tr\n";
print "Salt for pass: $salt\n";
print "Your encrypted Password: $ENCPASS\n";
print "Password from ypcat:     $Tr\n";

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Now mind you, this was only a test. I certainly don't do any code that willy-nilly displays a person's password to the word.

Kristofer Hoch.

In reply to Re: running unix commands under perl by krisahoch
in thread running unix commands under perl by Anonymous Monk

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