How to provide an isolated Perl environment for newly added users?

walkingthecow has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My thought here was to utilize /etc/skel. As root, I installed Perlbrew and then preceded to build a few versions of Perl. I copied the perl5/ folder to /etc/skel and then added a user. I logged in as the new user, wrote a simple script and tried to run it, but I get this error: "Can't locate strict.pm: Permission denied at /tmp/test.pl line 2." Ah, silly me, I compiled as root and so @INC now contains paths such as '/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls..." (you get the idea).

So, now I am stuck wondering how exactly I would accomplish this. Any ideas?

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Re: How to provide an isolated Perl environment for newly added users? by daxim (Curate) on Nov 28, 2013 at 10:19 UTC
Compile Perl relocatable. I haven't tested this.	[reply]
Re: How to provide an isolated Perl environment for newly added users? by Tommy (Chaplain) on Nov 28, 2013 at 14:32 UTC
I have run into the exact same problem on the script server I set up for my alliance on Lacuna Expanse. I've found that editing the metadata files for the perlbrew installation in the new user's home directory (and the new user's .bashrc/.bash_profile) is the way to correct the path problem. It really was quite simple, even though it wasn't automated. For an automated solution, a quick search/replace script could be created to do the path corrections for you in the appropriate files. One final point of advice: Look in the ~/.cpanm / ~/.perlbrew/ directories for any conf files that need updating as well. As the new user, run the cpanm command on a simple module to make sure you got it right. Good luck! Tommy A mistake can be valuable or costly, depending on how faithfully you pursue correction	[reply]
Re: How to provide an isolated Perl environment for newly added users? by aitap (Curate) on Nov 30, 2013 at 21:19 UTC
perlrun contains a list of useful environment variables, including PERL5LIB which is added to @INC splitted by ":". Have a look at how does local::lib modify Perl's, ExtUtil::MakeMaker's and Module::Build's behaviour to install modules to and run modules from the user's home directory.	[reply]