David,

2001-12-28 11:56:49, du schriebst:

> New to perl and new to the CPAN Interface. My environment: WinNt with
> gygwin, perl from that distribution (as opposed to ActiveState, which is
> useful but..).

Yes, great;)

> How can I modify the behavior of the interface specifically set the
> username/password LWP uses to connect?

Why?  If you want to connect a ftp-site without anonymous access try:
ftp://user:pass@ftp.your-ftp-site.dot/

To use a proxy you need to modify CPAN::Config.
Look:
perldoc LWP
perldoc CPAN

Gerrit
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