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:

  1. You (or somebody) has been running cpan as root which has some pretty massive security implications, or
  2. 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.

In reply to Re: cpan build environment by hippo
in thread cpan build environment by DennisLGolden

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