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Home folder not writeable

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 8766 / 2 Years ago, thu, december 16, 2021, 12:15:23

I have two users, and one of them can't write to his home directory (but the desktop directory?!) and Thunar displays a lock on the home folder. However, if I run ls -l in /home, I get

drwxr-xr-x 28 habefaro habefaro 4096 Mär  4  2013 habefaro

drwxr-xr-x 22 psirus   psirus   4096 Apr  4 16:52 psirus

So I can't see the difference?! Btw, habefaro is the user who can't write to his home folder.

EDIT: Running sudo lsattr -d /home/habefaro gives

----i--------e-- habefaro/

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answered 2 Years ago ippalogu · Accepted Answer

Based on the lsattr output, the user's home directory has been marked as immutable which will mean that no files or directories may be added or deleted. You should be able to unset the immutable attribute using chattr i.e.

sudo chattr -i /home/habefaro/