I think I might use this once I disect it and (possibly) clean it up. Please take the following as instructive and not as derisive.

A couple of things that jumped out at me:

• use strict 'vars'; Usually one needs a pretty good reason to enable only some of the strictitures. As it turns out, your code runs under full strict mode.
• You're not passing variables to subs. You might think that you are with calls like $user=create_user($folder);, but the create_user sub (and all the others) use $folder (and the rest of the variables) in a global sense. This is usually considered bad form.

I might try using your script as a base for creating one that does the same thing, but using an XML file as a config so that you only have to specify the values that are not the default value. Plus, it would give me an excuse to learn perlXML...;). This is a great idea!

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