http://perl.jonallen.info/writing/articles/install-perl-modules-without-root

Enjoy

See also:

1. My stuff on CPAN
2. Microsoft bots made DDoS on CPAN
3. Frozen Perl soon

Quote form CPAN Testers blog (more details):

If you’ve suffered any problems accessing any of the sites, the databases, the CPAN mirror, etc. from the CPAN Testers server last night, please direct your wrath at Microsoft. Last night the msnbot took out the CPAN Testers server with a dedicated denial of service attack. As a consequence measures are now being put in place to completely ban the msnbot from accessing at least the Reports site, and probably all the sites on the server.

Perl testers  pointed out that msnbot does not obey robots.txt file.

See also:

1. My stuff on CPAN
2. installing from CPAN without root
3. Website login with Perl

Whan user registers, his password is stored as md5 digest in database. Salt is generated – string of eight random letters, numbers etc.I use Crypt::PasswdMD5 qw(unix_md5_crypt);

When user logs in, password is checked-  crypted using crypted pass from database as salt:

if ( $cryptedpassword eq unix_md5_crypt($password, $cryptedpassword)) {

and if it is ok, cookie is stored with user ID and crypted password.

The cookie is then checked on every page, whether it contains the crypted password from database.

Well, this is my idea of doing it for now, already implemented, I feel a bit unease about that – what is the point of crypting password and storing it crypted, as it really matters whether the pass from cookie is equal to pass in database – it could be not crypted and it would work the same way.

The only advantage is that the password is not stored in cookie – but it is not needed, as just the digest is needed to pretend to be logged in.

What do you think?

See also:

1. Website login with Perl
2. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – dbi, mysql
3. Rocketaware – perl resources

http://search.cpan.org/~lukec/Zen-Koans-0.04/lib/Zen/Koans.pm

( you may see there: Thanks to Lech Baczynski for dump_fortunes. )

The code I sent to Luke was somewhat different that the code he included, but anyway, I am proud

See also:

1. Microsoft bots made DDoS on CPAN
2. installing from CPAN without root
3. Rocketaware – perl resources