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

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votes

How to solve this warning or how to solve this issue

ROMANCHs-MacBook-Pro:depot romanch$ rake db:migrate

/Users/romanch/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.2/gems/bundler-1.10.4/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:78: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr in PATH, mode 040777

ruby version is 2.2.2 and rails version is 4.2.3

also getting this error on rails command

ROMANCHs-MacBook-Pro:depot romanch$ rails -v

/Users/romanch/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.2/gems/bundler-1.10.4/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:78: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr in PATH, mode 040777 /Users/romanch/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.2/gems/bundler-1.10.4/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:78: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr in PATH, mode 040777

Rails 4.2.3

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What is in your PATH in your shell? – Meier
ROMANCHs-MacBook-Pro:depot romanch$ this is the path in my shell. – Romanch Sharma

1 Answers

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To eliminate this particular error, just execute

sudo chmod 755 /usr

But in general, world-writable /usr directory means there are problems in your system.