Re: cpan build environment

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

The listing which you have provided shows files with uid and gid of 0. This means one of two things:

You (or somebody) has been running cpan as root which has some pretty massive security implications, or
Somebody has managed to create root-owned files without running cpan as root ... which has some pretty massive security implications.

I hope for your sake that it's number 1 and the easy solution is to stop running cpan as root. HTH.

Update: It has been brought to my attention (thanks, GotToBTru!) that your post starts with "Using cpan as route ... " which probably means you are indeed running it as root. In which case, don't do that.

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Re^2: cpan build environment by Anonymous Monk on Jul 06, 2016 at 11:43 UTC
Probably number 1 - when you run `sudo cpan`, it will still use `/home/whoever/.cpan` and drop root-owned files there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: cpan build environment by DennisLGolden (Initiate) on Jul 06, 2016 at 19:24 UTC
Yes I run cpan as root when adding global additions to perl. I thank all of you for the information that you have provided. I also thank you for the quick response.	[reply]