U guys are the best....thx for all the responses... I settled for a tip from greycat at #debian: usermod -p `mkpasswd --hash=md5 $cleartxtpw` $username That can easyly go work in perl as well naturaly....;)... What do u guys think? Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-isp-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org