Users are not getting their home directory in rhel5

csravi88 · 08-03-2010, 11:13 AM

Hi,
I don't know what i have done by mistake.
[root@server1 ~]# su - user
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/user: Permission denied
-bash: /home/user/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$ cd ~
-bash: cd: /home/user: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$
could somebody help me out..

serafean · 08-03-2010, 11:16 AM

Hi, first check that /home isn't an unmounted partition.
Second, check that the directories exist.
Third, try changing the ownership manually :

Code:

chown -R user:user /home/user

don't forget the -m option when creating a user using useradd.

csravi88 · 08-03-2010, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by csravi88

Hi,
I don't know what i have done by mistake.
[root@server1 ~]# su - user
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/user: Permission denied
-bash: /home/user/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$ cd ~
-bash: cd: /home/user: Permission denied
-bash-3.2$
could somebody help me out..

Hi seratean, Thanx, but same issue arising with evey user..