Cannot log in user on new FC6 install

[Dotan Cohen]

On 08/03/07, oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:
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> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I've just replaced Kubuntu with FC6 on my desktop machine: 1.3 gHz
> > Duron processor with 1GB RAM. My /home partition from Kubuntu was not
> > formated, / was. I used the same username on both machines. When I try
> > to log in, I get a message that permision is denied, and that the
> > system cannot create ~/.gnome2 directory. The /home/user directory is
> > set to permissions 644 and both the group and owner are 'user', so I
> > don't see why it can't create the directory. When I log into the
> > console as root, I can cd into /home/user. However, when I log in as
> > user I as put into / and I cannot cd into /home/user.
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> I'm pretty sure the 'x' bit must be set on any directory, (at least mine
> is 700). as I recall on directories without the x bit set can't be read
> or written to (I actually had that once on a vfat partition, acted very
> screwy)
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> Scott
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I just chmoded /home/user to 700 (as I see that my new user has
permissions set to 700), and now I can log in. Thank you!

I also had to chown and chgrp everything in /home/user to user, as
they were all owned by 1000. Thank you very much for the tip. Good
thinking!

Dotan Cohen

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