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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Preserve permissions after backup?
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:45:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84fzrfej2c.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)

A Tramp user is reporting that the permissions of a root-owned file
change after he edits it with Tramp (the su method).  I'm guessing
that's because Tramp does backup by renaming and creates a new file
with default permissions.

Is there some machinery in Emacs which is designed to prevent things
like this from happening?  I guess there must be a bug in Tramp which
prevents this machinery from working.

I investigated the backup-by-copying variables but these don't talk
about the permissions, only the owner and group.

Or is backup-by-copying the right approach and I (and the user) just
need to make sure that it is used for the file(s) in question?
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!

             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-26 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-26 20:45 Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-01-27  6:22 ` Preserve permissions after backup? Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-27 17:41 ` Richard Stallman

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