After a migration to a new server, users report that they are unable to save files to their home directories. A check of the permissions on the home directories indicate that the permissions are set…

In Linux/Unix permissions, the 'w' (write) bit is required to create, modify, or delete files within a directory. The current user permission 'r-x' provides read and execute but not write access, so adding 'w' to make it 'rwx' will allow users to save files to their home directories.

The group already has the read permission set and the execute bit is separate; adding execute for the group does not resolve the inability to write files for the owning user.

Removing execute from other restricts traversal for other users but does not grant the owning user the ability to write to the directory.

Removing read from the group reduces group visibility into the directory but has no effect on the owning user's ability to save files.