K 10 svn:author V 3 jkh K 8 svn:date V 27 1995-05-20T13:05:22.000000Z K 7 svn:log V 285 The problem is the returned salt, while the freebsd man pages asks that the crypt salt string begin with a '_', no other crypt's do. If you remove the initialization of $salt to '_' in sub salt(), everything works as advertised. Submitted by: Charles Henrich END