Touch command. permission denied
<p>I was able to connect to my school server via SSH. I had an assignment in which I was supposed to use the touch command to create a new file. Yet it keeps returning permission denied. Others were able to do the same thing. Though why do I keep getting this error?</p>

<p>Below is what was the input from the terminal.</p>

<pre><code>Last login: Tue Aug 23 09:16:18 on ttys000
Dominiks-Air:~ fsociety95$ ssh djaneka1@navajo.dtcc.edu
djaneka1@navajo.dtcc.edu's password: 
Last login: Tue Aug 23 09:16:35 2016 from pool-72-94-210-193.phlapa.fios.verizon.net
</code></pre>

<p>Navajo is Linux shell server provided to staff, faculty, and students.  The
operating system is RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.  </p>

<p>Alpine, a Pine replacement, has been provided as a mail client.  Run "pine" 
at the command prompt.</p>

<p>This server also provides web space to users.  Web pages can be stored in
the ~/www directory.  This is also accessible by mapping a drive in Windows
to \navajo\homepage.  The URL for your homepage is 
<a href="http://user.dtcc.edu/~username/" rel="nofollow">http://user.dtcc.edu/~username/</a>.</p>

<p>Your home directory is also accessible in Windows by mapping to 
\navajo\.</p>

<p>If something appears broken or missing, please email path@dtcc.edu.</p>

<p>Could not chdir to home directory /u/d/j/djaneka1: No such file or directory</p>

<pre><code>-bash-3.2$ touch today
touch: cannot touch `today': Permission denied
-bash-3.2$ pwd
/
-bash-3.2$ touch today
touch: cannot touch `today': Permission denied
-bash-3.2$ 
</code></pre>

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<p>Edit: here is the result of <code>ls -al</code></p>

<pre><code>-bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 204
drwxr-xr-x  25 root root  4096 Aug 22 16:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  25 root root  4096 Aug 22 16:50 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     0 Aug  3 14:01 .autofsck
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     0 Jan 30  2009 .autorelabel
-rw-------   1 root root  2050 Aug  3 14:00 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May  4 04:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  3072 Aug  3 13:57 boot
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  4060 Aug  3 14:02 dev
drwxr-xr-x  87 root root 12288 Aug 23 10:05 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Oct  1  2009 home
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 12288 Jun  1 04:09 lib
drwx------   2 root root 16384 Mar 24  2008 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Oct  1  2009 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 Aug  3 14:02 misc
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 May 26  2012 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 Aug  3 14:02 net
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root  4096 Jan  5  2009 nsr
drwxrwxr-x   3 root root  4096 Oct 12  2015 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 219 root root     0 Aug  3 14:01 proc
drwxr-x---  12 root root  4096 Apr 22 10:06 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 12288 Aug  4 04:02 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Oct  1  2009 selinux
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Oct  1  2009 srv
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root     0 Aug  3 14:01 sys
drwxrwxrwt  38 root root  4096 Aug 23 10:07 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  34 root root  4096 Jun 21 08:29 u
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  4096 Apr 16  2010 usr
drwxr-xr-x  24 root root  4096 Apr 16  2010 var
-rw-------   1 root root  2865 Dec 16  2008 .viminfo
-bash-3.2$ 
</code></pre>

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<p>EDIT:</p>

<p><a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/pLWc2.png" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is what I see after trying <code>touch today</code> in <code>/home</code></p>