warning Insecure world writable dir usr local bin in PATH mode 040777

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Every time I run this command rails server        warning  Insecure world writable dir  usr local bin in PATH  mode 040777   I searched for a solution here and they said to type  chmod go-w  usr local bin  But I get this error       chmod  Unable to change file mode on  usr local bin  Operation not permitted   I am using OS X by the way

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If you re running OSX and getting this often  another good thing to consider is to use a built-in OSX permissions fixing tool  If you didn t change the mode of your directories  something else did and there s a chance that other directories have overgenerous permissions as well - this tool will reset them back all to factory defaults  which is a good security idea  There s a great guide on the Apple stackextange about this very process

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Am using Mountain Lion  What I did was Look for  usr local and Get Info  On it there is Sharing and Permissions  Make sure that its only the user and Admin are the only ones who have read and write permissions  Anyone else should have read access only  That sorted my problem    Its normally helpful is your Run disk utilities and repair permissions too

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I m also having the exact same problem with both  usr local bin and  etc sudoers on OSX Snow lepard Even when i logged in as admin and tried to change the permissions via the terminal  it still says  Operation not permitted   And i did the following to get the permission of these folders   From the terminal  I accessed  etc sudoers file and using pico editor i added the following code  username    ALL  ALL  ALL Replace  username  with your MAC OS account name

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I had the same error here MacOSX 10 11 - it seems ruby checks to see if any directory  including the parents  in the path are world writable  In my case there wasn t a  usr local bin present as nothing had created it   Run this command in your terminal Try this  sudo chmod 775  usr local  After this if you have any password on your mac   then you have to enter the password   Now this issue will be fix

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I had the same error here MacOSX 10 6 8  - it seems ruby checks to see if any directory  including the parents  in the path are world writable   In my case there wasn t a  usr local bin present as nothing had created it   so I had to do  sudo chmod 775  usr local   to get rid of the warning   A question here is does any non root wheel process in MacOS need to create anything in  usr local

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Try  sudo chmod go-w  usr local bin  The  usr local bin directory is owned by the root  i e  administrator  account  so even if you can write to it  you can t change the permissions on it   The sudo command means  run the following command as root   and works a lot like clicking that lock icon in the System Preferences dialogs

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You will need to have root access to do this   If you aren t already the administrative user  login as the administrator   Then use  sudo  to change the permissions   sudo chmod go-w  usr local bin   Obviously  that will mean you can no longer install material in  usr local bin except via  sudo   but you probably shouldn t be doing that anyway

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This should resolve your problem  chmod go-w   path of user

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I have had the same issue in OSX  It can be fixed by running Disk Utilities to Repair Permissions  I agree with Peter Nixey  in my case it is caused when my 3G dongle installs or reinstalls its driver  Repairing Permissions afterward fixes the issue

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Even I came across similar problem  I use KDE on ubuntu 12 and while playing around in my home folder I had accidently changed permissions for Group and Others as  can view and modify content  by right clicking in my home folder and then properties and forgot all about it    My warning was   warning  Insecure world writable dir  home my home folder in PATH  mode 040777   So in my case it was the home folder  I did undid the modifications of permissions and I stopped getting those warnings when running the rails server or rake tasks to run my tests

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You need to run   sudo chmod o-w -R  usr local

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Same here  apparently my  usr local folder was world writable so I made it 755    chmod 755  usr local   It also appeared that a Hauwei mobile dongle I had used had installed world writeable directories in  usr local as well

[ruby-on-rails] warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777

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