Re: sftp access failure (again)

[Michael Albinus]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Stephen,

> I'm unable to access a remote site via sftp using Tramp.  It's the same
> site I've had Tramp problems with several time over the last few years
> -- and each time you've been able to fix the problem, so I'm hoping that
> happens now too!  The site administrators have recently restricted
> external access to the site via VPN tunnel only, and this works for me
> with sftp from shell, but with Tramp I get "tramp-handle-access-file (1)
> # Cannot access file or directory: Reading directory: Permission
> denied".  The directory in question is three levels down, and I can
> access the two higher levels via Tramp, only the third level (which is
> where my personal data is) is inaccessible.  One difference between
> using sftp in the shell and using Tramp is that with the former, I
> explicitly enter my password, while Tramp accesses my password from my
> ~/.authinfo file.  I've attached a gzipped level 6 Tramp debug trace.

Yep, in the trace file there is

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
20:35:24.603530 tramp-handle-access-file (1) # Cannot access file or directory: 
Reading directory: Permission denied, 
/sftp:bermasbp@homepage.rub.de:/b/bermasbp/
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Handling the password differently doesn't matter.

It isn't completely clear to me why this happened. But I have a
suspicion. The file information of that directory are

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
bermasbp        7       (directory)     standard::display-name=bermasbp 
time::modified=1603836403 time::access=1643996815 unix::mode=17896 
unix::uid=45845 unix::gid=33
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Mode 17896 corresponds to "drwxr-s---", that means the setgid bit is
set. Tramp doesn't handle setuid and setgid properly I believe. Could
you please check the appended patch, whether it helps?

> Thanks,
> Steve Berman

Best regards, Michael.

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