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When I try to login as root, this warning comes up.

luvpreet@DHARI-Inspiron-3542:/$ sudo su
Password: 
zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]? 

If I say yes, it simply logs in, and my shell changes from bash to zsh.

If I say no, it says that ncompinit: initialization aborted and logs in.

After login, my shell changes to zsh.

All I ever did related to zsh, was download oh-my-zsh from github.

What is happening and why ?

Using - Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell.

You can list those insecure folders by:

compaudit

The root cause of "insecure" is these folders are group writable.

There's a one line solution to fix that:

compaudit | xargs chmod g-w

Please see zsh, Cygwin and Insecure Directories and zsh compinit: insecure directories for reference.

I encountered the same problem after following https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions, and I solved it using:

% cd /usr/local/share/zsh
% sudo chmod -R 755 ./site-functions
% sudo chown -R root:root ./site-functions

I found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13762280/zsh-compinit-insecure-directories

When I would run compaudit, I would get the insecure directories error from the plugins directory of oh-my-zsh. So I changed the permissions in the plugins directory:

• 
  cd /home/$usr/.oh-my-zsh/custom/


• sudo chmod -R 755 ./plugins

fixed the issue for me.

Ubuntu 16.0.4 on WSL.