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

macos, permissions, ruby-on-rails, rubygems, warnings

Solution

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.

Problem

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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