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:

Last login: Fri Apr 24 17:50:41 on ttys004
zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
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:

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

Then I ran these commands to fix it:

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

Related

• zsh Customizing my zsh prompt - 2020-08-12
• macos Running pip install -e .[test] in zsh on macOS Catalina - 2020-04-21
• python macOS Catalina sort-of includes Python 3 - 2020-04-21
• macos Close terminal window on Ctrl+D for macOS - 2020-04-21
• macos Atuin for zsh shell history in SQLite - 2022-04-26
• macos Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using - 2023-06-15
• macos Installing Python on macOS with the official Python installer - 2022-02-28
• macos Get Skitch working on Catalina - 2020-04-21
• macos Seeing files opened by a process using opensnoop - 2022-04-26
• zsh Passing command arguments using heredoc syntax - 2022-07-07

Created 2020-04-26T09:49:58-07:00 · Edit