> > chown gerald:gerald -R gerald/ > > and chmod 750 -R gerald/ > > > > have not changed anything. > > > > Did you try the above as root? What does 'ls -al /home' return? i did it as root. ls -al /home: [root@sima home]# ls -al /home total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 14 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jun 17 13:14 .. drwxr-x--- 38 gerald gerald 4096 Jun 17 13:20 gerald quite normal, i think. Gerald