I was helping out MGA73 setting up things on labs. Things didn't work. Looks like some homedirs are owned by root:

multichill@tools-dev:/home$ ls -al | grep root
drwxr-xr-x 427 root root 12288 Mar 2 20:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Feb 19 06:52 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 28 Dec 29 10:38 annabel
drwx------ 2 root root 28 Nov 21 14:01 csroychan
drwx------ 2 root root 28 Mar 2 20:57 mga73
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 11:17 .snaplist
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Apr 26 2013 .snapshot
drwx------ 2 root root 20 Feb 12 16:59 torin8

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55686 seems to be related to this. Please chown the affected directories and check if the accounts are properly setup.

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Severity: normal