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#1 2013-02-16 09:05:12

personator
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[SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

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)

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#2 2013-02-16 10:33:50

demaio
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Re: [SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

Perhaps something wrong with /home itself?

Please show the output of

ls -ld /home

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#3 2013-02-16 10:44:51

personator
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Re: [SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

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

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

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#4 2013-02-16 11:52:01

demaio
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Re: [SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

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)

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#5 2013-02-16 14:52:29

falconindy
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Re: [SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

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).

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#6 2013-02-16 15:48:45

personator
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Re: [SOLVED] Change directory failed on login

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*

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