From: Thien Vuong <tvuong@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T14:32:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Message "Insecure world writable dir ..."



Harry Ohlsen wrote:

> Thien Vuong wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Note that the warning is produced if *any* sub-directory of a directory 
> in the path is world writable.  For example, in my case, I have my own 
> "bin" directory in the path ... /export/home/harryo/bin.  That directory 
> isn't world writable, but Ruby picks up that one of the directories 
> above it is (ie, /export/home in this case).
> 
> H.

Hm, I don't have the same result


[1.21:14:22] tvuong>cd /tmp
[2.21:14:26] tmp>PATH=".:/bin:/home/eng/tools/bin"
[3.21:14:39] tmp>irb-1.8
irb(main):001:0> system "date"
(irb):1: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp/., mode 041777
Mon Nov 24 21:14:49 PST 2003
=> true
irb(main):002:0>

[8.21:16:41] tmp>ls -ld ./bin
drwxrwxr-x   2 tvuong   eng           69 Nov 24 21:11 ./bin

irb(main):004:0>
[4.21:15:04] tmp>cd ./bin

[6.21:15:13] bin>irb-1.8
irb(main):001:0> system "date"
Mon Nov 24 21:15:24 PST 2003
=> true
irb(main):002:0>
[7.21:15:25] bin>

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