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Ruby

Posted by Fredrik Persson
Fredrik Persson
2,079 Points

Get warning when creating application

When I create the treebook application, I get the below warning.

Insecure world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777

Does anyone know why I get it?

Thanks!

Fredrik

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

World writable directories are generally insecure, so Ruby is letting you know about any that are in your path.

It's a quick fix :

sudo chmod o-w /usr/local/

What this command is saying is:

Remove the write ability from the other category on the /usr/local/ directory

You can read more about Unix permissions in this tutorial