Subject: Re: bug#78638: 30.1; When editing a remote file owned by another user, Tramp signals an error because it cannot change the file mode

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:11:06 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> Likely, this is due to missing permissions in the upper directory.
>
> If the permission of the parent directory are the problem, then the
> same problem could happen with local files, right?

Likely, I am wrong. As Andreas Schwab wrote, to be able to chmod a file
you need to be owner (or privileged), other permissions are not
relevant.

Best regards, Michael.