Re: crypt()

> I am having a strange problem with the crypt function. I have been using > crypt to generate passwords for a .htaccess like this; > > $cpassword = crypt($password); > > This has been working fine for the past couple of weeks. But this morning > for some reason it stopped working. I made no changes to the script, I am > however on a shared host so something may have changed on the server (I am > just not sure what). Anyway, in trying to figure out what happened I wrote a > script that does the same thing in perl to try to isolate the problem. When > I crypt the password with perls version crypt (in the cgi script) it works. > Here are the two encrypted passwords I have been using for testing. The > password is shadow. The perl output from crypt is Md/w17y56z8Xc. The php > output is from crypt is $1$kx4aditc$xkrhdSA3zTQY21Frtp51e0 . The perl output > works in my .htaccess file and the php version used to but no longer does. > It looks like php is using a different algorithm then php. Any help would be > appreciated. Your script is using MD5 encryption, but you can force another encryption by using the second argument of the crypt function (the salt). If you use 2 characters as salt the crypt function wil use standard DES again. For more information www.php.net/crypt --- Ewout de Boer Chemistry Interactive Media