[Post-Install] Can't enter /root directory

[trvatrva]

I'm trying to enter /root directory.

user@user-tobefilledbyoem:~$ sudo cd /root
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
sudo: 'cd': command not found
user@user-tobefilledbyoem:~$ sudo cd /root
sudo: 'cd': command not found

Also I am triying to enter this folder by Thunar, but system wrote:

Failed to open directory "root".
Error opening directory "/root": Permission denied.

Can you explain to me how I can get access to folder /root.

[claydoh]

user@user-tobefilledbyoem

This may be a factor here, Not familiar with OEM install and post-install setup, I have never actually done one, or needed/wanted to over the decades.

Maybe more details about where in the setup/install process you are, and why you need to access the /root ( the so-called root user account's homedir) dir , or do you really mean to access the system root (just "/"?),

You should not need to access /root in *buntu, it really is not used, but you also should not need sudo to access " / "

So more info about what you are trying to do, things like that. Are you in the live session still, or the initial post-install session before the end user receives the computer and sets up their user account, etc?

If you really need to access /root then use sudo -i to switch to a root shell, then use cd to move there - no sudo needed. Type exit when you are done here.
You can do big harm in this session if you are not careful.

[jlittle]

To address your question directly cd is not an executable, it's a "built in" command of your shell. sudo only runs executables. You could run

sudo ls /root

Or, more dangerously, become root

sudo -i
cd /root

But claydoh's remarks apply, "what are you trying to do?"

[Snowhog]

There isn't a /root directory. 'root' directory is just / so cd / is what is required.

[oshunluvr]

Really? All my systems have a /root folder...

[Qqmike]

Just to (try to help) clarify ...

cd /root
bash: cd: /root: Permission denied

OK, then

cd /
ls
bin cdrom etc lib lib64 lost+found mnt proc run snap sys usr
boot dev home lib32 libx32 media opt root sbin srv tmp var

So now get in to root:
cd root
bash: cd: root: Permission denied

Oops! This where claydoh and jlittle are telling you that you need to
use sudo if you actually want to get into root to see what's there.

[Snowhog]

Really? All my systems have a /root folder...

"Ignore the man behind the curtain"

[claydoh]

To address your question directly cd is not an executable, it's a "built in" command of your shell. sudo only runs executables.

And I learned a new thing today