Authentication Php

if( !($passwd = @fopen( "passwords", "r" )))
{ echo "Cannot open password file.";
exit;
}
if( !$PHP_AUTH_USER )
{ Header( "WWW-authenticate: basic realm=\"Realm\"" );
Header( "HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized" );
echo "Text to see if user hits 'Cancel'";
exit;
}
// file format => username:passwd{\n}
while( $pwent = fgets( $passwd, 100 ))
{ $part = split( ":", ereg_replace( "\n", "", $pwent ));
if( $part[0] != $PHP_AUTH_USER )
continue;
// Username was found - verify passwd
if( $part[1] !=
// The crypt salt is stored as chars 1&2 of passwd
crypt( $PHP_AUTH_PW, substr( $part[1], 0, 2 )))
break;
echo "Hello $PHP_AUTH_USER.

\n";
}
// This only has effect of no text was output previously, so
// it is ignored in all cases except authentication error.
@Header( "HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized" );
?>