On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 12:52 -0500, Chas. Owens wrote: > I too have worked at places that have these sorts of obnoxious > policies. Most often I have found that the policy has been created by > lazy sysadmins who don't want to take the time to install the modules > (or learn how, since often they don't even know how). If this is the > case you can often get by with installing the modules into the home > directory of the user who is to run the code (and using the lib pragma > or PERL5_LIB). There have been a few places where it was a real > security issue (as opposed to just lazy sysadmins).
Yeah but these were web servers. The userid would be www or nobody. What was really frustrating was that they installed modules like Mason and WWW::Mechanize but wouldn't install simpler modules. The official excuse was the possibility of malware but the really excuse was laziness. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Believe in the Gods but row away from the rocks. -- ancient Hindu proverb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
