I have to say that there is a delicious sense of irony in your comment but not nearly as important as the 4 scripts which I consider to be trade secrets. I'd like to use free software as much as possible. :-)

Afaik ROOT will _always_ be able to access your scripts. I am even hesitant to believe that ACL's will help. Whats to stop the admin setting the computer to run in single user mode as root, then changing the ACL's and then reviewing your code? Even worse, presumably your stuff will be getting backed up, so the sysadmin could take the backup restore to a seperate machine and then change ACL's to her hearts content and you would never even know.

And sysadmin hacks aside there are also things like running your code under -d and trace or even more elaborate hacks to get perl to regurgitate your code (howabout using B::Deparse on the code...)

Ultimately there is NO way in perl (that I am aware of) that will keep your code truely secret. It will always be possible for someone with sufficient privs to access the code.

Sorry,

--- demerphq
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