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Permission denied on ~ even though owner listed as me

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Somehow, I managed to chmod and chown my ~ into oblivion.

When I attempt to login through the shell, I get

bash: ~/.bashrc : Permission denied

Even after (as root) I've run

chown -hR nroach44 /home/nroach44

and

chmod -R 666 /home/nroach44

or (as nroach44)

chmod -R 644 /home/nroach44

None of these commands return errors.

Also:

ls -la /home/nroach44

Returns lots of

drw-rw-rw-  1 nroach44 nroach44 4096 --date-- ti:me foldername

Any Help?

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answered 2 Years ago admin · Accepted Answer

chmod -R 666 /home/nroach44

or

chmod -R 644 /home/nroach44

This will make all the files on your home dir non executable. It was not a good idea ;)

I don't know how to clean this mess, as a quick workaround you can try to do as root:

chmod -R 755 /home/nroach44

This command will give execute permissions to all files on your home folder. It should solve your immediate problems, but it could be a security nightmare.

The best solution is to open another user account and transfer to it files and settings one by one.