Re: Could not chdir to home directory: Permission denied

[Florence Blanc-Renaud]

On 8/17/19 10:05 PM, Selman Keskin via FreeIPA-users wrote:
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Hi,

we need a little more information in order to help you. When is this 
issue happening? I assume you are trying to connect to an IPA client 
either using ssh or console login.
First check what is defined as homedir for the user on an IPA server
# kinit admin
# ipa user-show <userlogin> | grep 'Home directory'
/home/<userlogin>

Then on the machine where you got the error 'Could not chdir', check the 
directory permissions:
# ls -ld /home/<userlogin>
The directory needs to belong to the user and have the right permissions 
(drwx------).

By default, the home directory of every user is computed from 
<HomeDirectoryBase>/<userlogin>
and the HomeDirectoryBase can be found with:

# ipa config-show | grep 'Home directory base'
   Home directory base: /home

If you want to modify the Home Directory Base, you can use
# ipa config-mod --homedirectory=<newval>

Note that the new setting will be applied to users created after this 
command and will not modify existing users' home directory.
If you want to modify the home directory for a specific user, you can use
# ipa user-mod <userlogin> --homedir=<newval>.

HTH,
flo