Question

I enabled root in terminal by sudo passwd root and then attempted to cd a rails site folder located on my desktop. I got the error -bash: cd: /Users/fred/Desktop/sitefolder: Permission denied

How to get rid of this error/ enable all permissions for root? Thanks

Answer 1

Are you sure you called cd as root?

If yes, check if the owner of the folder is root. If not call

sudo chown /Users/fred/Desktop/sitefolder root

then check if the owner has reading permission. If not call

chmod 744 /Users/fred/Desktop/sitefolder

(this enables all permissions for owner and only reading permission for group and others).
If you don’t care much about that folder you may instead call directly

sudo chmod 777 /Users/fred/Desktop/sitefolder

giving all permissions to every user.