rserver[1692]: ERROR system error 13 (Permission denied)

Hi, Cole,
Thanks for your quick response.

I cleared the cookies from my firefox browser on Windows 7, and tried to log into the Rstudio server again. It popped up the same error again.

Yes. I am using the open source version of Rstudio server. I followed the instructions here:

Here is the test result following your suggestions:

[testuser@third-test ~]$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
tail: cannot open '/var/log/syslog' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: no files remaining
[testuser@third-test ~]$ tail -f /var/log/messages
tail: cannot open '/var/log/messages' for reading: Permission denied
tail: no files remaining
[testuser@third-test ~]$ useradd -m -s /bin/bash testuser2
useradd: Permission denied.
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
[testuser@third-test ~]$ sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash testuser2
[testuser@third-test ~]$ sudo passwd testuser2
Changing password for user testuser2.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

As you can see, I created a new user called "testuser2" with a password "testpassword2", however, when I logged into rstudio server using my firefox web browser, it popped the same error.