I am moving a whole bunch of scripts/files to a new server, including "singup" scripts that generate encrypted passwords to be saved in an .htpasswd file. The new server (which uses "cPanel X") features a password protection feature where you manually enter a username/password and it encrypts/saves the info for you in the .htpasswd file.

The problem is this: the encryption method on my server doesn't seem to match what I used to do in my scripts, which means a) the old .htpasswd file is useless and b) I can't figure out how to automatically generate encrypted passwords.

Amy I missing something simple? The code below worked well on my old server. (I lifted the CryptPasswd() code from somewhere...)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $username = $query->param('username'); 
my $password = $query->param('password'); 

my $pwd = CryptPasswd($username, $password);

sub CryptPasswd {
    my ($self) = shift;
    my ($passwd, $salt) = @_;

    if ($salt) {
          # Make sure only use 2 chars
      $salt = substr ($salt, 0, 2); } 

        else {
      ($salt = substr ($0, 0, 2)) =~ tr/:/C/; }

    return crypt ($passwd, $salt);
}

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(PS - I do not have the ability to install modules, and only have a limited number at my disposal...) Thank you for any wisdom...

In reply to crypt(), authentication, and my new server by poprishchin

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