cd into directory without having permission

Question

When cding into one of my directories called openfire the following error is returned   bash  cd  openfire  Permission denied   Is there any way around this

User · Answer

Unless you have sudo permissions to change it or its in your own usergroup/account you will not be able to get into it.

Check out man chmod in the terminal for more information about changing permissions of a directory.

User · Answer

I know this post is old  but what i had to do in the case of the above answers on Linux machine was  sudo chmod  x directory

User · Answer

You ve got several options    Use a different user account  one with execute permissions on that directory  Change the permissions on the directory to allow your user account execute permissions   Either use chmod 1  to change the permissions or Use the setfacl 1  command to add an access control list entry for your user account   This also requires mounting the filesystem with the acl option  see mount 8  and fstab 5  for details on the mount parameter      It s impossible to suggest the correct approach without knowing more about the problem  why are the directory permissions set the way they are  Why do you need access to that directory

User · Answer

Enter super user mode  and cd into the directory that you are not permissioned to go into  Sudo requires administrator password   sudo su cd directory

User · Answer

If it is a directory you own  grant yourself access to it   chmod u rx go-w openfire   That grants you permission to use the directory and the files in it  x  and to list the files that are in it  r   it also denies group and others write permission on the directory  which is usually correct  though sometimes you may want to allow group to create files in your directory - but consider using the sticky bit on the directory if you do    If it is someone else s directory  you ll probably need some help from the owner to change the permissions so that you can access it  or you ll need help from root to change the permissions for you

User · Answer

user812954 s answer was quite helpful  except I had to do this this in two steps   sudo su cd directory   Then  to exit out of  super user  mode  just type exit

User · Answer

Alternatively  you can do   sudo -s cd directory

User · Answer

chmod  x openfire worked for me  It adds execution permission to the openfire folder

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