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I am using webmin on a system which I am setting up for a client, this system will be a remote mail server (dialing up to the internet to download mail). My problem is I am new to perl and wish to modify one script where the user of webmin adds / removes / or modifies a user on the system. I need to update a clear text file on my system with the users username:password so that another script I have written (shell script) can use fetchmail to get the users mailbox from my mailserver over the internet.

The two variables that webmin passes are $u{'user'} and $u{'pass'}

Can someone please help me?

In reply to Writing and modifying (change ordelete) a file by Russ

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