The Crypt docco says:

Traditionally the result is a string of 13 bytes: two first bytes of the salt, followed by 11 bytes from the set ./0-9A-Za-z, and only the first eight bytes of the encrypted string mattered, but alternative hashing schemes (like MD5), higher level security schemes (like C2), and implementations on non-UNIX platforms may produce different strings.

So I would expect test1234 to crypt to the same as test12345 but not test123. Here is some test code showing just that behaviour: 

nph>perl -ne'BEGIN{print "Pass: "}; $S="ab"; print crypt($_, $S), "\nP
+ass: "'
Pass: test
abpNYMT5RGuX6
Pass: test1
abW8wbI6pkG9g
Pass: test12
abP627jOqenSg
Pass: test123
abpwNzBDeyy9Y
Pass: test1234
abP/cckPJaUqA
Pass: test12345
abP/cckPJaUqA
Pass: test123456
abP/cckPJaUqA
Pass:

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I used a constant salt just to keep things simple. Are you using Unicode so that 8 bytes is less characters ? I see enyas (sp?) in your code like the one here print $fh "$userñ$pass";

Cheers,
R.

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In reply to Re: crypt help by Random_Walk
in thread crypt help by dave_pl

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