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https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/88rze5/fedora_wont_let_me_login_into_preexisting_user/

I've kept my /home partition the same across distros. I just installed Fedora KDE spin, but not it won't let me login through SDDM. This hasn't been an issue with other distributions like Ubuntu or Arch. Not the best first impression...

How do I fix this?

I get the following error when trying to login in the console:

 -- username : /home/username: change directory failed: permission denied
Logging in with home="/"

sudo restorecon -R /home

It deletes nothing just restoring some things related to SELinux. Sorry I don't know much about that but I had the same problem some days before and it was fixed with that command.

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