Crypt::Salt(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Crypt::Salt(3)NAMECrypt::Salt - Module for generating a salt to be fed into crypt.
SYNOPSIS
use Crypt::Salt;
print crypt( "secret", salt() );
DESCRIPTION
The single exported subroutine in this module is for generating a salt
suitable for being fed to crypt() and other similar functions.
BUGS
Please let the author know if any are caught
AUTHOR
Jonathan Steinert
hachi@cpan.org
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
with this module.
SEE ALSOperl(1).
salt
Argument : The first argument as passed will be used in numeric context as a count of how many characters you want returned in the salt, the default is 2. All other arguments are ignored.
Returns : A string of random characters suitable for use when being passed to the crypt() function
perl v5.8.8 2003-11-12 Crypt::Salt(3)