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
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.