I was attempting at simple wordlist password cracker to confirm users are not using simple passwords. I am still learning perl just in its beginnings at the moment because of my lack of time with school etc. Here is the part of the code where it encrypts and tests. Please let me know if you think its beyond my abilities at this early time to even attempt such a task, I just dont understand what is wrong. It is hard to trouble shoot which is really being encrypted since you cannot reverse the hash. Here is a snippet of what I have written. 
print 'enter salt: ';
chomp($salt = <STDIN>);

print 'enter password hash file: ';
open(PASSC, <STDIN>) or die "cannot open password file: $!\n";
$passc = <PASSC>;

print 'enter wordlist: ';
open(PASSF, <STDIN>) or die "cannot open wordlist file: $!\n";
@list = <PASSF>;

for (@list) {
 $pwdcrypt = crypt $_, $salt;
  if ($pwdcrypt eq "$passc") {

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thanks in advance - blumongoos (blumongo@arbornet.org)

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