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In order to cope with having to use Windows at work I run Cygwin. My shell of choice is zsh. For whatever reason the Cygwin package of zsh installs with a serious of directories that the zsh completion system deems to be insecure and it makes sure you know this. Each time a new shell is opened (in my case through a Windows native rxvt terminal) I would receive the following warning:
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<code>Ignore insecure directories and continue [ny]?</code>
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Pressing 'y' becomes a bit tedious after a while so I decided to track down these insecure directories and fix them.
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<tt>man zshcompsys</tt> reveals the following about the security check:
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<blockquote>For security reasons compinit also checks if the completion system
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would use files not owned by root or by the current user, or files in
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directories that are world- or group-writable or that are not owned by
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root or by the current user. If such files or directories are found,
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compinit will ask if the completion system should really be used. To
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avoid these tests and make all files found be used without asking, use
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the option -u, and to make compinit silently ignore all insecure files
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and directories use the option -i. This security check is skipped
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entirely when the -C option is given.
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The security check can be retried at any time by running the function
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compaudit.
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</blockquote>
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Running compaudit revealed the following:
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<code>% compaudit
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There are insecure directories:
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/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
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/usr/share/zsh/4.3.4/functions
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/usr/share/zsh
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/usr/share/zsh/4.3.4</code>
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Examining the permissions on these directories showed they were all group writable.
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<code>% ls -ld /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
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drwxrwx---+ 2 wmoore mkgroup-l-d 0 Sep 4 10:54 /usr/share/zsh/site-functions</code>
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Stripping them of the group write permission fixed the problem and made starting a new shell a little more pleasant.
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<code>% chmod g-w /usr/share/zsh/site-functions /usr/share/zsh/4.3.4/functions /usr/share/zsh /usr/share/zsh/4.3.4
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% compaudit
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%
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</code>
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<strong>Update:</strong> kylexlau provides this one line solution for correcting to permissions on each of the directories that compaudit returns:
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<code>compaudit | xargs chmod g-w</code>
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