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F24 to F25 upgrade: Gnome: Can only login as root

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After upgrading from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25 I found I couldn't login to my home directory. What I could do was login as root.
Has anybody had this same problem?

posted Nov 23, 2016 by anonymous

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2 Answers

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I'm not presently a Fedora user, but you should be able to make the /home directory accessible to all:

From root, (or from elsewhere, su and then password,) then: chmod a+x /home and now everyone on the system should be able to access /home.

If you want to limit it, then look up: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chmod

answer Nov 23, 2016 by Seema Siddique
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I had this same problem after a fresh install of Fedora (don't remember the release).
As root:
useradd -u youruserUID -D /your/home/directory youruser passwd youruser newpasswd
newpasswd

answer Nov 23, 2016 by Navneet
Please remember, I did an upgrade, not an install. I checked the permissions of my home directory and they are, "drwxrwxrwx.", and the permissions for /home is "drwxr-xr-x.". The permissions for /root is "r-xr-x---.".

The problem could be one of permissions.
commented Nov 23, 2016 by anonymous
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