[SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

personator · 2013-02-16 09:05:12

Hi,

I've just made a fresh install following the Beginners Guide, and after rebooting into Arch everything is ok if I login as root, but attempting to login as any other user gives me an error like:

-- user: /home/user: change directory failed: Permission denied

output of ls -l /home/ gives:

drwx------ 2 user users 4096 Feb 17 06:30 user

Help!

Last edited by personator (2013-02-16 15:51:04)

demaio · 2013-02-16 10:33:50

Perhaps something wrong with /home itself?

Please show the output of

ls -ld /home

personator · 2013-02-16 10:44:51

Hey, thanks for the reply
ls -ld /home gives:

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 17 06:38 /home

demaio · 2013-02-16 11:52:01

personator wrote:

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 17 06:38 /home

Seems to be ok.

I can reproduce your error message when I do a chmod a-rwx /home/user but with 0700 as you wrote the login works.

Other wild guesses (with no profound knowledge from my side): Is the /home dir mounted from somewhere? Could it be some (misconfigured) security framework (selinux, AppArmor etc.) that blocks access to the home dir?

Last edited by demaio (2013-02-16 11:54:26)

falconindy · 2013-02-16 14:52:29

What filesystem is this? If it's btrfs and you decided to put your / or /home in a subvolume, you need to chmod the subvolume to be 775 (I believe they're 700 by default).

personator · 2013-02-16 15:48:45

Thanks for the help fellas (was ext4 btw), I ended up reinstalling arch and everything is running smoothly. Maybe I screwed something up the first time round *shrug*

kshmr · 2025-05-19 20:49:16

For anyone else that may be facing this issue the fix is to just change ownership of the home directory.

sudo chown $USER $HOME

tekstryder · 2025-05-19 22:25:02

A 12 year necro, on a solved thread, with nonsense advice, in your very first post.

Bravo.

Last edited by tekstryder (2025-05-19 22:25:16)

WorMzy · 2025-05-19 22:47:45

As noted, please don't necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.

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