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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Something I just discovered today. The default user account (ie not root)
has no write permission to even it's own home directory. This seems to be
a bad thing. I recall someone else mentioning this happening before, but
don't know what all came from it. Any advice on this issue would be great.

Just for reference, I've got BL2 installed onto harddrive (/dev/hdb1),
pkgtool reports the following packages installed:
Bl2-base, bash, bash1, bin, binutils, bl2-x, xcclibs, e2fsprog, egcs,
fileutils, find, gcc295, gmake, grep, groff, gzip, hdsetup, ldso, less,
linuxinc, man, manpages, minicom, pciutils, pine, samba, tar, tcpip1,
wu-ftpd-patch, xbin, xcfg, xdoc, xf100, xfnts, sfscl, xlib, xman, xpm,
xsvga, xvg16, xxfb.

The only thing I have changed for the user account is that I changed the
default shell to the bash shell instead of sh shell. The line in passwd
file no looks like this:

user:x:100:100:Linux User,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash

No matter where I'm at in the system, even if I try to issue a touch
command "touch test" it gives me the Permission denied messgae. Since I'm
going to have this system operating headless, and you can't telnet or ftp
in as root, obviously, I need to find out what I've done to mess up the
user account :)

Matrix Mole
matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org