Can groups or other users have access to /root?

I deployed on a Digital Ocean's Ubuntu server a web app, but its been run in /root/appfolder.

I have tried chmod 744 /root and also 744 permission on the specific folder inside of root, but i can't access it with my user. I want to make it possible that other developers ssh into the server and have access to the folder.

Maybe I have to create a link to that folder so that every user has it in their home directoy? Up to this point I have no clue on what the most secure or best practice should be, not to say that still I get access denied to that folder using another user even after giving it read privelage.

Solution

chmod 744 /root gives you permission to read, not to open it (execute it). I just had to redefine permissions and chmod -R o+x /root and its done.

Solution 1:

The permissions 744 (r-xr--r--) are wrong. It should be 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

with 744, others can see what is in the directory, but without x on the directory, they can't access anything in it.