note shmem <blockquote><i>But please do not make passing on PERL5LIB a default. </i></blockquote> <p><i>Why?</i> The PERL5LIB environment variable is set up <i>after the fact</i> (of changing <c>$<</c> and <c>$></c>) <i>of getting broader permissions via sudo</i>.</p> <p>So, a well thought-out privilege evelating scheme is more important than the passing of an environment variable while changing $UID, becaue you could set that very ENV var by hand, after running sudo.</p> <p>That statement of yours which I quoted looks to me very much like the bogus "eval is evil" and "don't use system $string" warnings, which are nonsense as absolutes, i.e. without context.</p> 862257 862692