[H-GEN] weird permissions problem

Clinton Roy clinton.roy at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 23:47:10 EST 2010


Hi Troy,

> The permissions of /home are
> drwx------  43 root root  4096 2010-01-11 11:24 home

This is probably the problem.

>  sudo chmod go-rx /home/$NEW_USER/

And (with no NEW_USER value) this is probably the cause.

Your /home needs rx for group and other, so chmod go+rx /home and I
think your problem will be fixed.

hth,
-- 
Clinton Roy
CSIRO - Robotics Platform Engineer
Autonomous Systems Lab

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