With that command you change all permissions for all users.
The specific command to fix this specific issue is:
$ sudo chmod o-w /

(this only removes writable permission to Others/world)


El 23/10/19 a les 21:34, [email protected] ha escrit:
> Hello,
> 
> I do not speak English so I write this with a web translator.
> 
> the same consultation in Spanish:
> 
> https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gufw-warn-world-writable
> 
> 
> 
> I have done a multiple installation with several distributions based in
> debian and in ubuntu and with all the same happens to me:
> 
> on having installed the gufw, the following alarm throws me and the
> firewall does not work:
> 
> WARN: / is world writable! | WARN: / is group writable! |
> 
> since I could have seen in Internet this warning it appears when the
> permission of the directory root / is 777, and gets ready changing the
> permissions to 755
> 
> "sudo chmod 755 /".
> 
> It seems that this arranges it but I would like knowing why it happens.
> In other computers, also with multiple starter it has never happened to me.
> The only difference is that in this occasion the starter is UEFI.
> But as it happens to me in all the distributions I wonder I will not be
> doing something wrong in the installation process.
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks.

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