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

[Philipp Middendorf]

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 <michael.albinus@gmx.de> hat am 15.06.2024 11:27 CEST 
> geschrieben:
> 
>  
> Philipp Middendorf <pmidden@mailbox.org> 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.