Confirmed for 13.04 as well. When logged into an SFTP share as root, if I edit a file by another user and hit save the file's permissions get reset to root:root.
This is a very big problem editing web-pages or configuration files which might been specific ownerships and not be world-readable since they then can't be loaded. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199167 Title: Owner changed after saving file Status in Geany: Unknown Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome: Confirmed Status in “geany” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gvfs I've edited a text file with gedit via sftp. After saving it, the owner user and group is changed to the user that logged on the ssh server. This should not happen. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/geany/+bug/199167/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
