[TxMt] Re: insecure world writable problem

Donald Ephraim Curtis dcurtis at gmail.com
Fri Jun 4 18:28:19 UTC 2010


Try:

chmod o-w /usr/local/bin

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
>
>
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