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I wrote a very simple script that should allow me to create directories with specific permissions on a remote server.

I used the command to execute the script to the remote server:

stan@192.168.159.133 /root/Documents/script

And I got this answer:

bash: /root/Documents/script: Permission denied
Connection to 192.168.159.133 closed.

I'm working on Fedora 20, and the server is on Ubuntu 18.04.1.

I tried to modify the permission on my script document with chmod:

chmod 777 script

At first I tried to execute the script with the SSL connection integrated inside of the script (you can see it in my script).

#!/bin/bash

#Connecting to Ubuntu Server
#ssh stan@192.168.159.133

#specifying the directory where I want to create my two directories
cd /home/stan

#Creating the first directory "PublicFolder" and assigning permissions
mkdir PublicFolder
chmod -R 606 PublicFolder

#Creating the first directory "PrivateFolder" and assigning permissions
PrivateFolder
chmod -R 604 PrivateFolder

I see a few possibilities that could be causing your issue.
1. There is no ssh in front of your command. Try this:
ssh stan@192.168.159.133 /root/Documents/script

2. you are logging in to the remote server as stan and trying to execute a script that is under the user root. Stan will not have access to this script, even if you change the permissions on the file script.

3. Permissions flow down the directory tree with the x attribute. By default, /root will not allow access to anything below it.
ssh stan@192.168.159.133 ls -ld /root
ssh stan@192.168.159.133 ls -ld /root/Documents

You will probably see something like this:
drwxr----- root root /root

Or, more likely, you will get a permission denied error, because stan can't see in to /root.

Possibilities:
BAD root:192.168.159.133 # chmod -R a+rx /root
Better move /root/Documents/script /tmp & set execute permissions on /tmp
BEST cread a directory called /share, move /root/Documents/script to /share and set r+x permissions on /share