Hoi, before I file a bug against prtverify I like to discuss on the list, because I'm not really sure. Prtverify produces a fatal error of a port installs a world writable directory. AFAIK this isn't generally eval, because, if the directory has the sticky bit set, no harm can be done. See /tmp. This function needs to be supported by the kernel, of course. But for Linux, I assume this is true. Therefor I propose the attached patch, which excludes the case when the world writable directory has the sticky bit set. What do you think? meillo P.S. I came across this issue when I prepared the ex-vi port, which includes /var/preserve. --- prt-utils-0.9.3.orig//lib/prtverify/30_file_permissions.awk 2009-10-06 18:41:12.000000000 +0200 +++ prt-utils-0.9.3/lib/prtverify/30_file_permissions.awk 2011-09-06 11:14:56.000000000 +0200 @@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ loglevel_ok(FATAL) && FILENAME ~ FOOTPRINT { - if ($1 ~ /^d.......w./) + if ($1 ~ /^d.......w[^t]/) perror(FATAL, "world writable directory found: " $3) + # only a problem if the sticky bit is not set also if ($1 ~ /^-.......w./) perror(FATAL, "world writable file found: " $3)