On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:31:28AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote:
> When you install a perl module from CPAN
> should you do it as root???
Often the answer you'll see in response to this question is "yes", as
evidenced by the two answers I see to your question already. The real
answer is "it depends". On several of my home systems I have a specific
user named, aptly, 'perl', that I use for installing modules. It owns all
of the Perl library directories and the libraries themselves. I prefer this
to running untrusted code from CPAN (Makefile.PL, the generated Makefile,
etc.). YMMV
Michael
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