Re: Weird tramp scp permissions issue with

[Ian Eure <ian@digg.com>]

On Nov 16, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> Ian Eure <ian@digg.com> writes:
>
>> Any file I create on a remote host using tramp's scp method gets a
>> mode of 0600, rather than the 0644 I would like. If I use the  
>> (slower)
>> ssh method, the file gets the correct mode.
>>
>> What seems to be happening is that the local file gets created with
>> 0600, which is preserved when it's SCP'd over. Indeed, 'tramp-methods
>> shows that the `-p' argument is passed to scp, which does exactly
>> this.
>>
>> My umask is 0022 on both ends, which is correct. So tramp seems to be
>> creating the file with 0600 before it copies it.
>>
>> Does anyone know how I can fix this?
>
> Which Tramp version do you use? With Tramp 2.1.15-pre, which I have
> running, I see 0644 permissions for a new file with both ssh and scp
> methods.
>
I'm using whatever comes with Emacs 22.

I installed 2.1.14, and the problem went away. But it also broke vc- 
dired, and maybe other vc stuff:

Loading vc... [2 times]
byte-code: Recursive `require' for feature `tramp-compat'

The vc-mode stuff from Emacs 23 CVS doesn't work for me, either.

  - Ian