bug#57238: closed (29.0.50; Tramp: as root on remote SSH server: file is write protected, for -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 46587 Aug 5 20:42 websites)

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file is write protected, for -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 46587 Aug 5 20:42 websites
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #57238,
regarding 29.0.50; Tramp: as root on remote SSH server: file is write 
protected, for -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 46587 Aug  5 20:42 websites
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> 29.0.50; Tramp: as root on remote SSH server: file is write protected, for -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 46587 Aug  5 20:42 websites
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> Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:39:06 +0300
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> I remember I was editing this file many times, but now I am getting this
> weird error:
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> Tramp: Checking ‘vc-registered’ for 
> /scp:root@static:/etc/nginx/sites-available/websites...done
> Note: file is write protected
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>   -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 46587 Aug  5 20:42 websites
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> While I am root on the remote server.
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> M-! whoami results with "root", so I am root, but file is reported as
> write protected which is not so for root.
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> In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 
> 1.17.6, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2022-08-10 built on protected.rcdrun.com
> Repository revision: e7b348b08ac5cea01141ece6b06f95c6d0b8c292
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003
> System Description: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
>
> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'
>
> Configured features:
> ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
> JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
> PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
> WEBP X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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> Major mode: Dired by name
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   buffer-read-only: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   indent-tabs-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
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> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
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> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny rfc822
> mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util
> text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
> mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-extra help-mode novice vc-hg vc-git
> diff-mode easy-mmode vc-bzr vc-dispatcher dired-aux dired dired-loaddefs
> tramp-cache time-stamp tramp-sh tramp tramp-loaddefs trampver
> tramp-integration cus-edit pp cus-start cus-load icons wid-edit files-x
> tramp-compat shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring parse-time iso8601
> time-date ls-lisp format-spec auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core
> cl-macs cl-loaddefs cl-lib password-cache json subr-x map byte-opt gv
> bytecomp byte-compile cconv rmc iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel
> term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode
> prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu
> timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core
> term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic
> indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
> tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek
> romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
> composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
> jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs
> faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5
> base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
> hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2
> dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit
> xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
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> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 97976 10048)
>  (symbols 48 10723 2)
>  (strings 32 34000 1247)
>  (string-bytes 1 1032783)
>  (vectors 16 19386)
>  (vector-slots 8 265442 11741)
>  (floats 8 68 73)
>  (intervals 56 329 0)
>  (buffers 992 14))
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> -- 
> Jean
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> Subject: 
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> Re: bug#57238: 29.0.50; Tramp: as root on remote SSH server: file is write protected, for -rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 46587 Aug 5 20:42 websites
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> Date: 
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> Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:50:10 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Version: 29.1
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> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
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> Hi Jean,
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> > Now it works, feel free to close it.
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> Done.
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> > I wonder if it is possible to exclude that warning "Checking
> > `vc-registered'" as it is just disturbing, Tramp is anyway slow and
> > turning it off could speed up the process.
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> This is version control, enabled by default in Emacs. If you don't need
> it at all, you can disable it by setting vc-handled-backends to nil. If
> you want to disable it just for all remote files, you can set
> vc-ignore-dir-regexp to an appropriate value. The Tramp manual
> recommends
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq vc-ignore-dir-regexp
>       (format "\\(%s\\)\\|\\(%s\\)"
>               vc-ignore-dir-regexp
>               tramp-file-name-regexp))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> Best regards, Michael.
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