Cannot login into home directory after upgrade to F24

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

I have just dnf upgraded from F22 to F24. Everything went fine, but
now, when I try to login, I get the following message:

"/home/psmith: change directory failed: Permission denied"

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/06/2016 01:26 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> I have just dnf upgraded from F22 to F24. Everything went fine, but
> now, when I try to login, I get the following message:
>
> "/home/psmith: change directory failed: Permission denied"
>
> Any ideas?

Log on as root from a text console and run restorecon -r /home/psmith 
and see if that helps.

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Joe Zeff  wrote:
> > I have just dnf upgraded from F22 to F24. Everything went fine, but
> > now, when I try to login, I get the following message:
> >
> > "/home/psmith: change directory failed: Permission denied"
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Log on as root from a text console and run restorecon -r /home/psmith and
> see if that helps.

Thanks, Joe and Stan.

Joe's suggestion did the trick!

Paul

[stan]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:26:39 +0100
Paul Smith  wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have just dnf upgraded from F22 to F24. Everything went fine, but
> now, when I try to login, I get the following message:
>
> "/home/psmith: change directory failed: Permission denied"
>
> Any ideas?

Check the UID of psmith.  My guess is that it has changed.  You can, as
root, usermod user to have the UID you specify, man usermod.  Change
the GID at the same time.

Then you will want to chown -R UID:GID /home/psmith to the new UID/GID,
as root.

Then, if your password hasn't changed, you should be able to log in.
Otherwise, you can also expire your password as root, and then reset it
to what you want at first login.  man passwd