note 15776 added to function.crypt

OK. Perhaps this is trivial for long time UNIX gurus, but it took me two years or so to find out how to validate a Solaris shadowed password. It's quite simple: get the first and second characters of the password you want to validate, then feed this as the salt, and what the user is entering as the string, as follows: $salt = "do your own stuff to read /etc/shadow and get the first and second characters of the password"; $pass_cryp = crypt($user_entered_pass, $salt); if ($pass_cryp == $user_entered_pass) echo "Passwords match"; else echo "Get the hell outta here, intruder!"; Hope it helps. Paulo -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+15776 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+15776 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+15776