I thought that maybe you were right at first, but I am using chomp() and not chop(). It's weird thought, I just started to use "use strict;" and now what happens is if I try to submit with a completely wrong password, it will tell me that my username/password do not match, and heres where the weird part comes in. If i try to submit with my password followed by any characters, it still validates. I'm pretty sure this isn't supposed to happen.

here is the code that I am using to verify the admin: 

sub verify_admin {

    my($admin_passwd,$ausername,$apasswd,$username);

    open(PASSWD, "$adminpasswddir/adminpasswd.db") || &dienice("Can't 
+open the file adminpasswd.db: $!");
    $admin_passwd = <PASSWD>;
    close(PASSWD);

    chomp($admin_passwd);
    ($ausername,$apasswd) = split(/\|/,$admin_passwd);

    $username = "$FORM{'username'}";
    my $cypassword = crypt("$FORM{'password'}","v6");

    if ($cypassword eq "$apasswd" && $username eq "$ausername"){
        &admin_main;
    }
    else {
        &dienice("Your username/password combination is incorrect. Ple
+ase press your browsers back button and try again.");
         }
}

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And here's the code that's being used to write to the admin password file: 

if ($FORM{'password'} eq "$FORM{'verifypassword'}"){
    my $cpasswd = crypt("$FORM{'password'}","v6");

    open(ADMINPASS, ">$adminpasswddir/adminpasswd.db") || &dienice("Ca
+n't open the file adminpasswd.db $!");
    print ADMINPASS "$FORM{'username'}\|$cpasswd";
    close(ADMINPASS);

    open(USERS, "<$passwddir/users.db") || &dienice("Can't create the 
+file users.db $!");
    close(USERS);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

#SUCCESS HTML

}
else {
    &dienice("Your passwords do not match. Please press your browsers 
+back button to fix the problem.");
}
exit;
}

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If you need to see a copy of the script in full for reference, it can be downloaded from HERE

Thanks again for all the help,
Titanic_Fanatic

In reply to Re: username/password validation by titanic_fanataic
in thread username/password validation by titanic_fanataic

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