hi, Thanks for your input. What we are facing is 1. I have encrypted file using the command htpasswd -c -m -b filename username password The output was stored in file. admin:$apr1$g3X.i/..$NZYMsYERfm1obRrWUy9aq. I found out admin is username. I want to validate the user admin. I am getting the input as username password (which is plain text like "linux") can I know How to validate in perl or c?. Thanks and regards, Iyappan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx