From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-01T05:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Insecure word writable dir?

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> When I exec another program from inside Ruby, I get this warning:
> "warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777"
>
> Here's /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt   17 root     root         4096 Aug 31 13:16 /tmp/
>
> Any ideas?  It's sort of annoying.  I thought /tmp had to be world writable.
>
> Joe

it's very annoying.

$VERBOSE=nil

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