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.

What do those encrypted passwords look like? If the "cPanel X" developers didn't roll their own encryption mechanism, they should be using the system's crypt library, and it is likely perls crypt can deal with it.

You may just need another "salting": 

perl -le 'print crypt "secret","\$1\$perlhack\$"'
$1$perlhack$8F6u9tXAeAq4QtPWDJJwi.

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The "perlhack" part of the salt should be a random generated string of course.

As for a) - did you try your old .htpasswd files? They might "just work".

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: crypt(), authentication, and my new server by shmem
in thread crypt(), authentication, and my new server by poprishchin

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