Ok, so I have an idea to build a program that is like a time card system in perl. The problem I am facing right now is the password piece of the puzzle. I want to ask a user for a password, if he does not have one then the user creates a password that is specific to them. I want to store that password in a hash. So let's say: my %pword = (Rich => '', Broke => '',); Both Rich and Broke have no passwords, so when they create one, I want to store that input into the key's missing value. I thought about reversing the hash so it can be done, but now I look for other solutions because maybe it will be more complicated. I just want to get that value with the current key, and I found trouble on how to use the user's username to look up the key, and store that password in their value. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

In reply to Password with hashes by Velli

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