if(!$username){ relogin("Enter your username"); }elsif(!$password){ relogin("Enter your password"); }

This says if I have a username go ahead don't look at the next condition

I really don't know what I was smoking

You still want

if (!$username or !$password) { relogin('Username/Password pair not valid'); }

It stops you from giving too much information to someone who is trying to break in (eg. Ok I have the username right now just work on the password)

another hint

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM info WHERE pword='$password'"); $sth->execute() or die "Couldnt do it: $!\n"

This will fail if the MD5'd password has a ' in it. Just imagine what that SQL will look like when the $password is expanded. You can use placeholders to get around this

my $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM info WHERE pword=?'); $sth->execute($password) or die "Couldnt do it: $!\n"

DBI will properly escape any characters that need to be escaped



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