From: Thien Vuong <tvuong@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T14:02:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Message "Insecure world writable dir ..."



Thien Vuong wrote:


> It seems that this warning is only issued if the affected directory is
> in the path.  So I guess it is a could be construed as a security issue
> for popen/system/exec in ruby.  But it was not clear from the message at
> all and seems to imply ruby does not like the setting - which bother 
> user because most time they have no control over it.
> 

The fix/workaround is to remove the component out of the path (or ".").
Don't have to change the dir setting.  Unless one insists on executing
out of those directory.

> Thien
>