zsh compinit: insecure directories

Question

What does it mean and how can I fix it?

zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compini         


        

Answer 1

Send a y character to the input stream of the script using compinit, in order to automatically answer the Ignore insecure directories and files and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]? question

echo "y" > source /completion.zsh.inc

The solution is useful when

• you can't make ownership/access changes to the folders
• when you can't use the -u option to remove the warning (probably because you don't explicitly call 'compinit' yourself, but it's called by a script you call)

Remark: It doesn't fix the problem and only hides the warning (as opposed to others answers here which involve removing 'group write access' or 'change ownership to root').