warning: Insecure world writable dir [duplicate]

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After installing Rails accord to this post Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You.

At using scaffold I see some strange warnings.

I followed next steps:

nazar@desktop:~/Documents/rails⟫ rails new blog
nazar@desktop:~/Documents/rails/blog⟫ cd blog
nazar@desktop:~/Documents/rails/blog⟫ rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text
/home/nazar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0@global/gems/bundler-1.6.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:222: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/nazar in PATH, mode 040777
/home/nazar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0@global/gems/bundler-1.6.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:222: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/nazar in PATH, mode 040777
/home/nazar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0@global/gems/bundler-1.6.2/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:222: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/nazar in PATH, mode 040777
/home/nazar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/spring-1.1.2/lib/spring/application.rb:164: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/nazar in PATH, mode 040777

I wondering to know if I understand right rails uses SqlLite by default? Coz at blog/db it didn't create any sqlite3 file?

Is something wrong here?

Answer 1

This is a warning that your home directory is writeable to by anyone in your group plus anyone else at all (i.e. world). The 777 at the end of the mode is indicating the directory is writable by all of yourself (owner), the group plus world. Normally it should end with 755 or 750 depending on how open you want your home directory to be.

It is not going to stop anything working but it's a legitimate warning as you really don't want your home directory open like this.

Easiest way to fix it is to execute command such as:

chmod go-w /home/nazar

which will remove write permission for group and others (world).