reading credentials from a passwd file in perl

ZAMO · 02-05-2009, 06:11 AM

Hi,

I want to read the user username and password available in a password file. I want the password to be stored in a user home directory and my perl script should read , whenever needed from that file.

Am not a Perl programmer and I want to set this for admin related activities.

In what syntax I need to write the password file and How to call them using the perl script.

Thanks

rizwanrafique · 02-05-2009, 09:41 AM

Are you talking about /etc/passwd or some other password file?

chrism01 · 02-05-2009, 06:36 PM

What format is the orig file you need to read?

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http://perldoc.perl.org/
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials

ZAMO · 02-06-2009, 01:16 AM

Its not a /etc/passwd file. It is a file created for the purpose to store the login name, password and SID(oracle) and to read from it , whenever needed.