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On 8 July 2012 10:06, Benjamin <byu17@uclive.ac.nz> wrote:
> hmmm, I searched for the warning - it doesn't seem common (according to
> google). I assume this is bad.
>>
>> "This port has installed the following world-writable files/directories."
>>
>> What does this message mean?
>

It means that some of the files that it has installed are permission ugo+w.

This may or may not be a problem-- would you care if any random user
edited these?  I mean ANY user!

Chris