[SOLVED] On permissions.

I have an offline post-install Arch setup; no GUI programs or anything that's not in core packages. I'm generally learning as I go and filling my holes in knowledge regarding Linux when needed. This time I tried tightening permissions a little bit before going online, and apparently caused something go wrong in the process.
When I log in with my user account, it returns no "No directory, logging in with HOME=/" and puts me in root directory of the system, instead of my user directory. I booted up my Ubuntu system to check how permissions are set there, but replicating them didn't get rid of me being unable to access my own directory. I've set user directories to be owned by 'user' and 'users' group. Even after running 'chmod -R 777 /home/user' doesn't allow me look into my own home directory. It has left me rather puzzled.
How can I get rid of the message and successfully access my home folder? Whilst doing that, what are the general guidelines regarding tightening of directory permissions, i.e. what needs to be kept in mind to leave system usable?
P.S. I apologize in advance if I've left out a necessary detail or two in my first post; it's late and my brain is hardly up to its best.
Last edited by Winta (2011-08-12 00:51:26)

Posting the listing of the contents of /home
[karol@black home]$ ls -al
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 08-04 14:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 07-08 12:51 ..
drwx------ 84 karol users 36864 08-12 00:56 karol
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-09-13 lost+found
drwx------ 2 test1 users 4096 08-04 14:41 test1
could be useful.
Maybe the problem is with /home and not /home/user.

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