Re: "Permission denied" from dired, but not from ido completion in tramp

Hi again,

the defadvice call solves the problem! I'll write to our admins then and update you on that. Thanks again for the help so far!

Cheers
Philipp


> Michael Albinus <[email protected]> hat am 15.06.2024 11:27 CEST geschrieben:
> 
>  
> Philipp Middendorf <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi Michael,
> 
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> > I see, thanks for the explanations! It's indeed curious that the usual
> > user/group mechanism isn't used here. I will ask the people at DESY
> > what's going on here in detail, but I heard some time ago that ACLs
> > are being used, which seem to work in parallel to the usual Linux
> > rights. Maybe tramp doesn't support this?
> 
> Tramp checks also ACLs and SELinux permissions, but only after the usual
> UNIX permission tests. Maybe this must be tuned? Waiting for the answer
> of your sysadmin.
> 
> > Is there a way to tell tramp to simply omit these permission checks?
> > Do you know which purpose the checks serve? I mean, couldn't tramp
> > just try to open files and then fail if the OS gives an error?
> 
> Try (defalias 'tramp-handle-file-accessible-directory-p 'always)
> Untested.
> 
> > Cheers
> > Philipp
> 
> Best regards, Michael.