I am not sure if it's just me, but I'd be frightened if I knew my username and password were recorded in nothing more than a user=pass text file. It doesn't even sound like the user is encrypting this information. Instead of reading from and writing to a file, wouldn't it be easier if the user used a flat file database like SDBM or DB_File? It would make it a lot easier to sort by username or password or even search for them by one or the other; not to mention make it a million times easier to change a user=pass by updating the $user{'newpass'];.

I could be wrong, but this was my first thoughts when reading what the original poster asked and wondering why none of the rest of you have mentioned this.

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sulfericacid

In reply to Re: changing password by sulfericacid
in thread changing password by bory

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