A cgi script on my local mirror, which has worked flawlessly in the past (and continues to work on a remote host), is suddenly failing to verify passwords. I've traced it to a problem with crypt, viz: 
perl -e "print crypt('abcdef', 'uvwxyz')"
uv...........

[download]
In every instance, I get the same result: the first two characters of the salt, followed by a string of periods. I've tried this with both 5.6.0 (as provided by Redhat for their Linux 7.0), as well as ActivePerl 5.6.1 on the same Linux box. Both give the same results. I've also updated glibc, thinking that libcrypt.so might have been broken, but to no avail.

I must be overlooking something simple, but it's got me flummoxed. Has anyone else experienced this behavior?

Thanks!

In reply to Weird crypt Behavior by Dr. Mu

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.