[H-GEN] weird permissions problem

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Mon Jan 11 02:02:10 EST 2010


* Clinton Roy wrote :
> 
> 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.

Yep.  That was it.  Thanks so much.  Simple ones are often the
easiest to miss, hey.

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