use Crypt::PasswdMD5;

          sub my_md5_crypt {
          my $salt;

          for(0..7) {
              $salt .= ('.', '/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z','a'..'z')[rand 64];
          }
          my $pass = shift; #clear text password

          return unix_md5_crypt($pass, '$1$' . $salt . '$');
          }
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I've tried this, but I get different results when i put in the password and the given salt... They don't match up to the results in the main section.