[TLUG]: locked out of home directory??

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:28:51PM -0400, matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:
> i've run into a weird problem -- i can't access the home directory of  
> my main user on a system running ubuntu gutsy.  xsession fails with a  
> less-than-ten-seconds error, and when i log in at the console i get  
> the message:
> 
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> 
> if i try to
> ls /home/matt
> or
> cd /home/matt
> i get
> Permission denied.
> 
> but if i ls -ld /home/matt it shows
> 
> drw-r--r-- matt matt   /home/matt
> 
> doesn't that seem bizarre?  anyway, it's a drag, and i'm writing this  
> from a windows computer in my house, and it'd terribly disheartening.   
> plus i have work to do!
> 
> thanks for your help,

It does seem bizarre that someone or something would remove the execute
bit from the directory since a directory without eecute is nearly
unusable (you can't list it's contents).  Most directories should be
rwxr-xr-x.

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Len Sorensen