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I've made all suggested changes except the invocation of crypt.crypt() 
 
The second argument to crypt() is the salt, which is always the first 2 
characters of a crypt()'ed password. That is, in: 
 
>>> import crypt 
>>> crypt.crypt('sekrit', 'aa') 
'aamzd3ZUREauc' 
>>> 
 
The "aa" is the salt, and forms the first two chars of the crypt()'ed 
password. Passing any additional chars has no effect: 
 
>>> crypt.crypt('sekrit', 'aamzd3ZUREauc') 
'aamzd3ZUREauc' 
>>> 
 
but is incorrect in terms of the length of the salt argument.