From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-27T15:15:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26619] Re: Password encryption (UNIX)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:26616] Password encryption (UNIX)"
    on 01/11/27, "HarryO" <harryo@zipworld.com.au> writes:

|I want to use the standard UNIX login/password mechanism for
|authentication of a user.  Is there any support in the libraries to
|allow me to encrypt a password, so I can compare it with the one
|stored for a given login name?

Suppose you have "pass" as crypted password and "input" as comparing
plain password:

  input.crypt(pass) == pass

will be true if input is a correct password.

							matz.