From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T14:38:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Message "Insecure world writable dir ..."

Thien Vuong wrote:

>> 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

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

It's not complaining about ./bin, it's complaining about "/tmp/." (ie, "/tmp") in this case. The modes on ./bin aren't the issue ... or did I misunderstand what you were saying?

H.