What Permissions for my /home folder

Somehow I messed up my /home/justin folder so bad that I can not even login. I think I need to do a chmod to something but I don't know what to do. I try to log in and it just says that /home/justin is missing but it is not. Also it was saying that my .dmrc needed to be 644 but still let my login. Then the next time i rebooted it would not let me log in at all.

jae1227 wrote:It says file should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. I change the permissions and still get the error but it lets my login and go about my business.
So you've done
$ su
$ chown user ~/.dmrc
$ chmod 644 ~/.dmrc
and still get the error?
- Dave

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