[ale] Ports and Crypt

[Robert L Harris]

Ok,
  I'm thinking of doing some port based stuff on my machine, such as 
telnet to port 4133 and get a rather detailed report of what's going on
with the machine.  The problem is I'm paranoid by default.  I'd like to
use /etc/passwd to restrict who can/can't access it.  I've got down
alot of the details.  My problem is I want to use a perl script and a
subroutine that requests a passwd then compares it agains an entry
in /etc/passwd.  Does anyone have a quick tutorial on how to encrypt
the string the user gives so I can do a comparison or some other 
good ideas?

Robert
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perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'