I cant figure this out this is a test program since I can't get the part that is in the real program to work. I dont have the otpion of using the MD5 module so I figured i'd open up a pipe to shell for the md5 command provided by UNIX.

But it won't work and I think I am probably missing something elementary. I looked online and did not get any ideas. Any clue what i am doing wrong?

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

#password correctness md5 direct insert from UNIX hash

open( CRYPT , "MD5 -s $ARGV[0] |" );

$password_hash = <CRYPT>;

close( CRYPT );

print $password_hash;

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