Anyone ever seen anything like this before? 

Bash says a directory doesn't exist when logging in as the user who's home
directory it is. 

The directory IS there.

What the heck? (FWIW the directory had already been created when I created
the user... Wonder what diff that makes?)

Thanks,
John    

PS, Please copy me directly on replies.

[root@colin /home]# ls -al 
total 32 
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 13 12:08 . 
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 23 14:40 .. 
drwx------ 8 john john 4096 Aug 27 10:14 john 
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 3 17:15 lost+found
drw-rw---- 7 mysql root 4096 Aug 27 11:50 mysql   <-LOOK AT THIS
[root@colin /home]# telnet colin 
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to colin. 
Escape character is '^]'.
 
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) 
Kernel 2.2.16-3 on an i586 
login: mysql 
Password: 

No directory /home/mysql! <- LOOK AT THIS
Logging in with home = "/". 
bash: /home/mysql/.bash_profile: Permission denied 
bash$ logout 
bash: /home/mysql/.bash_logout: Permission denied 
Connection closed by foreign host. 

[root@colin /home]# ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 13 12:08 . 
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 23 14:40 .. 
drwx------ 8 john john 4096 Aug 27 10:14 john 
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 3 17:15 lost+found
drw-rw---- 7 mysql root 4096 Aug 27 11:50 mysql 

<- yup, its still there...???                                 




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