[Freeipa-users] Could not chdir to home directory /home/net/dean: Permission denied

[Dean Hunter]

On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 14:05 -0500, Dean Hunter wrote:

> I am sorry, but I have forgotten where to start to diagnose this
> problem. Please remind me.
> 
> [dean at host ~]$ ssh desktop.hunter.org
> Last login: Sun Apr 20 21:12:38 2014 from host.hunter.org
> Could not chdir to home directory /home/net/dean: Permission denied
> -bash: /home/net/dean/.bash_profile: Permission denied
> -bash-4.2$ pwd
> /
> -bash-4.2$ ls -l /home
> total 4
> drwx------. 4 local local 4096 Apr 20 21:04 local
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root  root     0 Apr 21 13:48 net
> -bash-4.2$ ls -l /home/net
> total 8
> drwx--x---. 29 dean dean 4096 Apr 20 21:28 dean
> -bash-4.2$ ls -l /home/net/dean
> ls: cannot access /home/net/dean: Permission denied
> -bash-4.2$ whoami
> dean
> -bash-4.2$ exit
> logout
> -bash: /home/net/dean/.bash_logout: Permission denied
> Connection to desktop.hunter.org closed.
> [dean at host ~]$ 
> 
> desktop.hunter.org is a VM that I have rebuilt several times trying to
> work around this problem. ipa-client-install and  ipa-client-automount
> completed without error messages.  /home/net/dean is accessible when I
> log-in through gdm and Virtual Machine Manager.
> 
> 
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Now it appears as though that ssh fails to access the auto-mount home
directory until after successful gdm log-in:

[dean at host ~]$ ssh desktop.hunter.org
Last login: Mon Apr 21 14:34:51 2014 from host.hunter.org
[dean at desktop ~]$ pwd
/home/net/dean
[dean at desktop ~]$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for dean on desktop:
    requiretty, env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE
INPUTRC
    KDEDIR LS_COLORS", env_keep+="MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG
LC_ADDRESS
    LC_CTYPE", env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT
    LC_MESSAGES", env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER
    LC_TELEPHONE", env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS
_XKB_CHARSET
    XAUTHORITY", secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin

User dean may run the following commands on desktop:
    (root : root) NOPASSWD: ALL
[dean at desktop ~]$ yum list installed freeipa-*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
freeipa-client.x86_64                3.3.4-3.fc20
@local-updates
freeipa-python.x86_64                3.3.4-3.fc20
@local-updates
[dean at desktop ~]$ logout
Connection to desktop.hunter.org closed.
[dean at host ~]$ 

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