Take the tour ×  I recently copied a file as the root user to my
users's home directory. Ever since that my user has not been
able to go to its home directory because "permission is denied".
I have already chowned the directory so that it is owned by the
user but still i'm getting the error.  (OS: Debian Lenny)  Can
canyone help?   share|improve this question Please post the
permissions of your home directory. –  Christian Jan 6 '11 at
7:28 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 2 down vote accepted  Check
that the directory is also readable by the user. So, for a home
directory the octal permissions should typically be 700 or
rwx------  share|improve this answer thanks, Managed to fix it
by doing chmod 770 –  RayQuang Jan 6 '11 at 10:42 add comment
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