after putting the hurt down on some code and realizing that i mistyped my salt during my initial trials... final working code:

use Crypt::PasswdMD5;
my $pass ="foobar";
my $salt="M0au29mc";
print unix_md5_crypt($pass, $salt);
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OH MY! was that difficult... feel free to make fun of me beyond this point. :)