<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.6"> </HEAD> <BODY> I am sorry, but I have forgotten where to start to diagnose this problem. Please remind me. <TT>[<A HREF="mailto:dean@host">dean@host</A> ~]$ ssh desktop.hunter.org</TT> <TT>Last login: Sun Apr 20 21:12:38 2014 from host.hunter.org</TT> <TT>Could not chdir to home directory /home/net/dean: Permission denied</TT> <TT>-bash: /home/net/dean/.bash_profile: Permission denied</TT> <TT>-bash-4.2$ pwd</TT> <TT>/</TT> <TT>-bash-4.2$ ls -l /home</TT> <TT>total 4</TT> <TT>drwx------. 4 local local 4096 Apr 20 21:04 local</TT> <TT>drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 21 13:48 net</TT> <TT>-bash-4.2$ ls -l /home/net</TT> <TT>total 8</TT> <TT>drwx--x---. 29 dean dean 4096 Apr 20 21:28 dean</TT> <TT>-bash-4.2$ ls -l /home/net/dean</TT> <TT>ls: cannot access /home/net/dean: Permission denied</TT> <TT>-bash-4.2$ whoami</TT> <TT>dean</TT> <TT>-bash-4.2$ exit</TT> <TT>logout</TT> <TT>-bash: /home/net/dean/.bash_logout: Permission denied</TT> <TT>Connection to desktop.hunter.org closed.</TT> <TT>[<A HREF="mailto:dean@host">dean@host</A> ~]$ </TT> 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. </BODY> </HTML>