I suggest keeping a separate installation of perl6 if you are going to use it as root, and maintaining strict permissions by setting an appropriate umask such as 0077 in root's ~/.profile
On 19 July 2017 at 10:53, Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been wondering about pl programs that are > used by the root account. I have been marking them > to root and 700 to keep other out. But it is occurring > to me, if the bad guys have access to my custom modules, > they could insert anything they want into it and have > root access. So, I have been setting my pm's that I > need root programs to use to root and 700 as well. > > What is best practice in this matter? > > Many thanks, > -T
