Sascha Wilde <wilde@intevation.de> writes:

> The file /path/to/example on host bob is owned by root.foo
> visiting it from another host as /ssh:root@bob:/path/to/example
> editing and saving leads to it being owned by root.root.
>
> I have backup-by-copying set to t.
>
> Any Ideas?

Tramp 2.1.11 respects now the parameter PRESERVE-UID-GID of `copy-file'.
Does the following patch (files.el in Emacs trunk) help?

> cheers
> sascha