Cannot push over sftp when parents of remote directory are not readable

[wouter bolsterlee]

I'm trying to push a branch over sftp to sftp://hostname/home/u/uws/dir/subdir, but Bazaar fails with this message:

  bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "/home/u/.bzr/branch-format": [Errno 13] Permission denied

My home directory on the remote machine is /home/u/uws, not /home/uws. Also, Bazaar is not installed on the remote machine.

The directories /home and /home/u cannot be read/listed by me.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:48 +0000, Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm trying to push a branch over sftp to
> sftp://hostname/home/u/uws/dir/subdir, but Bazaar fails with this
> message:
>
> bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "/home/u/.bzr/branch-format": [Errno
> 13] Permission denied
>
> My home directory on the remote machine is /home/u/uws, not /home/uws.
> Also, Bazaar is not installed on the remote machine.
Does any bzr branch exist yet on the remote host? If not, I would guess
bzr is looking for a repository to put the branch in.

It should probably ignore this error when looking for repositories. And
to make sure that we don't accidently skip repositories, I think
Martin's suggestion to print the repository that's being used would be
very useful here.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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[wouter bolsterlee (wbolster)]

No, there is no repository or branch on the remote machine. /home/u/uws/dir already existed, but /home/u/uws/dir/subdir did not.

[wouter bolsterlee (wbolster)]

Ah, the culprit is that the parent directories cannot be read by me:

$ ls -ald /home /home/u
drwxr-xr-x 38 root wheel 512 2008-09-26 15:27 /home
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 2009-01-27 23:21 /home/u

[wouter bolsterlee (wbolster)]

This makes more sense, since the directory permissions do not really reflect what I'm experiencing:

$ ls -al /home/u/.bzr /home/.bzr /.bzr
ls: cannot access /home/u/.bzr: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /home/.bzr: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /.bzr: No such file or directory

The machine I'm trying to push to is a shell server operated by a large Dutch ISP with advanced network storage disks (auto)mounted over NFS (I think, the machine is pretty much locked down).

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

bzr should handle the permission denied error and create a standalone branch, this permission layout is valid.