Permission denied altough chmod 777

I am running following commands:

$ ls
total 12K
drwxrwxrwx  3 szr szr 2.0K Nov 14 12:08 .
drwxrwxrwx 12 szr szr 2.0K Nov 14 11:23 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 szr szr 1.6K Nov 14 12:08 config.xml
-rwxrwxrwx  1 szr szr 1.6K Oct 23 01:13 config.xml.postinstall
drwxrwxrwx  5 szr szr 2.0K Nov 14 12:08 scripts
-rwxrwxrwx  1 szr szr  884 Oct 23 00:54 setup.sh
-rwxrwxrwx  1 szr szr   26 Oct 23 01:13 versionstr.txt
$ cat setup.sh 
cat: setup.sh: Permission denied

I don't understand it. Why cannot I access the file if permissions are set?

Thanks a lot for advice.

Edit: To explain the context - these files are from installation of pretty complex program that my friend installed on our server. In order for others to use it, we changed permissions recursively to 777 and I am now trying to run it. Pretty naive approach - I know - but at least I would expect different error to "Permission denied".

FOLLOW-UP

so this was the solution according to our admin:

find my_folder -type d -exec fs setacl {} my_user rl \;

It was afs filesystem, so usual commands did not work. Thanks for help.

Perlnika

Posted 2013-12-12T22:20:05.357

Reputation: 111

3Who is the owner of the files. What group is connected to the file. What is the file suppose to do exactly? – Ramhound – 2013-12-12T22:28:39.163

try getfacl setup.sh to see ACL. – mpgn – 2013-12-12T22:41:56.287

Check the permissions of the mount too if this is a mounted device – Paul – 2013-12-12T22:50:50.990

.... or a network share? – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-13T04:40:40.123

@Perlnika - If you have an answer to your question, post an answer, don't simply update the question. – Ramhound – 2014-01-18T21:39:36.497

Permission denied altough chmod 777

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