In order to be on the sudoers list, open System Preferences, and click on Accounts. Then edit your user, after authentication, so that you 'Can administer this computer' or something like that. If you want life easy, you can sudo pico /etc/csh.login, and add the line 
alias cpan sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

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somewhere in the file. Another tip is to also add 
alias ll ls -l

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Which will allow you to view long file lists more easily. But i'm drifting off topic.

If you ever find yourself in need of these aliases, and they are not available, you may need to type tcsh -l to get your shell to read the .login file.

Best of luck!

-nuffin
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