I think the title, sums up this one. I have a CGI script that is calling another script via system(), specifically, my $ERR = system("/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/nbin/verify.pl --username foo --password bar"). As you can guess, the verify.pl script verifies the provided password against the system password for the spec'd username. I use Authen::PAM for the process, and in the verify.pl script, I return the result

sub check_password {
  ## inquiry to PAM
  my $pamh = new Authen::PAM($service, $username, \&my_conv_func)
    or die "Error code during PAM init!\n";

  ## grab return from auth process. other than 0 equals failure
  my $answer = $pamh->pam_authenticate;

  return $answer;
}

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However, it looks as though $ERR is always set to 0 since the system call is working.

How can I get the return from my verify.pl script to show up in the value of $ERR?

thanks! -c

In reply to Getting a return code from a perl script called via system() by c

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