Symlink "Permission denied"

Question

I am unable to find any existing questions addressing this:

I have a symlink:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 www  adm    49 Aug 26 10:00 pictures -> /home/user/foo/bar/baz

Target directory:

drwxr-xr-x 12 www adm 4096 Aug 26 07:53 baz

Trying to access it as user www fails:

~$ sudo -u www ls /var/www/pictures
ls: cannot access /var/www/pictures: Permission denied

What on earth?

EDIT: Turns out the problem was missing permissions on outer folders.

Answer 1

User www simply does not have access to /home/user/foo/bar/baz.

Check this and add proper access rights to this directory.