Unable to open root folder

[PBankai]

HI, my account ( admin and unique account in the system) is unable to open the root folder even after trying to open it as an administrator, is there any way to fix this?
for context when opening with admin access

I am trying to get into that because I want to edit some files for my AWS CLI installation

[1093i3511]

Should be accessible with the terminal.

[PBankai]

ran as admin

a time ago I had an incident where I have to rebuild my session because I delete my bootable for the endevour partition I am thinking it might be related

[xircon]

In a terminal these characters are important:
$ is user
# is root

so:

~ ❱ su                                                                                                                                 16:47:27
Password: 
[root@xircon-legion xircon]# cd /
[root@xircon-legion /]# cd root
[root@xircon-legion ~]# 

[1093i3511]

Try su within the terminal

[Photor]

Hello,

anyway, I can reach /root as “normal” user:

╭─[photor@Picard:~]
╰─>$ cd /root
╭─[photor@Picard:/root]
╰─>$ cd
╭─[photor@Picard:~]
╰─>$ 

That is because, user “photor” (me as normal user) is allowded to enter /root-directory:

╭─[photor@Picard:~]
╰─>$ ls -la /root
insgesamt 2344
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root    4096  9. Nov 15:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root    4096  8. Apr 2024  ../
[...]

See permissions: “dwrxr-xr-x” - last “r-x” ist important; so everybody is to allow to visit /root. Maybe you check this. (And maybe, it can be discussed, if this is a good idea)

Ciao,
Photor

[MyNameIsRichard]

Try running the following commands:

sudo -i
cd /root

[Photor]

additional remark:

• my system is a laptop with only me as user. I would never do this on a multi-user machine!
• intension of my post: the reason for the not allowed to cd into /root is most likely the permission of the directory.
• I have no idea, what is the default after fresh EOS installation (and what is the default on Arch)

So: this is NOT an advice to do so!!!

Ciao,
Photor