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Re: login: cannot cd /home/user



I figured this out.  It turns out that the "." directories
/. and /.. had permissions 700 when they should have been 755.

If you know why this should be I would be interested.  root's umask is
0002.

     ~Michael

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:53:40AM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> I copied my root file system onto a seperate partition.  When I try to
> boot into new partition as / I cannot login.
> 
> I get the error:
> cannot cd /home/user
> 
> When I boot normally and chroot into the new partition and run login I
> get:
> 
> cannot determine tty name
> 
> I copied devices ( and everything else ) with `cp -a`  I have done this
> before many times without a problem.  
> 
> What should I be looking at to understand what is happening?
> 
>     ~Michael
> 
> 
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