Fixing “compinit: insecure directories” error#

Every time I opened a terminal on my new Mac running Catalina with zsh I got the following annoying error:

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Last login: Fri Apr 24 17:50:41 on ttys004
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zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
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Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]? ncompinit: initialization aborted

Based on a tip in https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions/issues/680 I fixed it by doing this:

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% compaudit
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There are insecure directories:
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/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
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/usr/local/share/zsh

Then I ran these commands to fix it:

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sudo chmod g-w /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
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sudo chmod g-w /usr/local/share/zsh

Fixing "compinit: insecure directories" error

https://mranv.pages.dev/posts/fixing-compinit-insecure-directories-error/

Author

Anubhav Gain

Published at

2024-03-09

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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