note PERLscienceman Greetings Fellow Monk!<br> <br> I see in your script that you are trying to generate for your users random passwords.<br> I would like to recommend to you this module: [cpan://Crypt::GeneratePassword].<br> I have found it to be quite useful. Here is a snippet of code to demo it: <code> #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $minlen=6; my $maxlen=10; use Crypt::GeneratePassword qw(word chars); my $word = chars($minlen,$maxlen); print "$word\n"; </code> 323687 323687