Re: unable to login
On 2020-09-03 15:20 +0100, anthony gennard wrote:
> Greg Wooledge on 1st September very kindly gave me a detailed reply to my
> cry for help.
>
> I tried to follow his reply but I have lost all my memory following a
> stroke.
> So it took me some time to do so as I had to relearn the basic file
> commands. I got as far as the following:-
>
> " - bash: home/john: Is a directory
> john@john-PC:/$ ls -ld home/john /home/john/.ICEauthority
> dr-xr-xr-x 26 john john 4096 Aug 31 11:46 home/john
> -rw------- 1 john john 9016 Aug 31 11:21 home/john/.ICEauthority "
>
> This takes me no further forward.
>
> What puzzles me is that the login worked at least 30 times without the
> error message and I cannot understand why it stopped.
Your home directory is not writable by you, so no new files can be created
there. Run "chmod 755 /home/john" to fix that.
Cheers,
Sven
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