From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 Description of problem: The strace output for su - user is quite self-explanatory: time(NULL) = 1026381455 setfsuid32(0x321) = 0 chdir("/home/web/someuser") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) the problem is that "web" has a 750 permission and is owned by root. SU should actually call setfsgid() before doing that chdir() call, cause my setup is legal. (in fact it gives an error but then you can happily cd ~ and do your stuff. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see the description, most information is there 2. give read permission to a homedirectory only to the user's group 3. su - that user Additional info:
Fixed in 2.0.12-2
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