Part 1: Foundations

In our journey of code, it is always useful to have a foundation. For starters you will need to make sure that you have the following PERL packages installed, as we will be using them regularly.

Net::LDAP
Authen::SASL
IO::Socket::SSL
Digest::SHA
Mail::Sendmail
Crypt::SmbHash
CGI

I have found that some of these are much easier to install via packages (yum or apt-get), specifically Authen::SASL, as it requires Net::SSLeay, which requires it be compiled with the same compiler as your original perl installation. Most of the others can be installed from cpan.