[TxMt] Re: insecure world writable problem (Donald Ephraim Curtis)

[Roberto Aguilar]

On Jun 5, 2010, at 5:00 AM, textmate-request at lists.macromates.com wrote:
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:28:19 -0500
> From: Donald Ephraim Curtis <dcurtis at gmail.com>
> Subject: [TxMt] Re: insecure world writable problem
> To: TextMate users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Cc: "textmate at lists.macromates.com" <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
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> Try:
> 
> chmod o-w /usr/local/bin

Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities/) has a "Verify Disk Permissions" button in the First Aid tab.  Click on your hard drive partition and hit the disk permissions button.  See if that fixes your error.

-Roberto.

> But you may have bigger problems. Somehow the /usr/local/bin directory  
> is world editable meaning any malicious script could copy another  
> script or program into that directory. The problem is that the  
> directory is in your shells PATH.
> 
> On Jun 4, 2010, at 13:05, Christopher Brewster <cbrewster at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> When running a python script, I suddenly have the following error  
>> message
>> 
>> /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Support/lib/tm/process.rb:194:  
>> warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode  
>> 040777
>> 
>> I have tried re-installing textmate, and re-installing all the  
>> bundles to no avail.
>> 
>> Looking through the email list I cannot make heads or tails of what  
>> the solution is.
>> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>> 
>> Christopher