login: root

root@gibson:~# ▌

Could not chdir to home directory /home/nsc: Permission denied /bin/bash: Permission denied Connection to 192.168.1.13 closed.

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after creating lxc container, I wasn’t able to connect to it as a simple user. Also couldn’t change to simple user using “su”.

All I got was an error:

Could not chdir to home directory /home/nsc: Permission denied
/bin/bash: Permission denied
Connection to 192.168.1.13 closed.

All permissions of home directory were correct, as to be 100% sure, deleted user and created again. Still the same problem.

The problem was / permissions.
It was 700, so simple user couldn’t change to any directory.

Small fix to make it working (with root user)

chmod 755 /

And that’s it, user is working!!!

Comments

8 responses to “Could not chdir to home directory /home/nsc: Permission denied /bin/bash: Permission denied Connection to 192.168.1.13 closed.”

  1. Gaurish Sharma Avatar
    Gaurish Sharma

    Brilliant! Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Valeriy Avatar
    Valeriy

    excellent! it really works!

    Reply
  3. koyaanisqatsi Avatar
    koyaanisqatsi

    hello,

    how can i fix it on this?:
    ~ # mount
    rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
    /dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
    proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
    ramfs on /var type ramfs (rw)
    ramfs on /etc type ramfs (rw)

    any way?

    koy

    Reply
    1. nsc Avatar
      nsc

      isn’t that live cd ?
      everything should be normal in it.
      If not, paste Your error message, also permissions and owners of all directories to that users home directory.

      Reply
  4. Avatar
    Anonymous

    finally after hours – its that simple..thank you!!!

    Reply
  5. thatdude Avatar
    thatdude

    Thank you!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  6. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Thank you for your information it’s solved.

    Reply
  7. Avatar
    Anonymous

    thank’s

    Reply

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