scp method fails setting rights

[Isak Johnsson]

Hello!

I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0) of 2004-07-13 
with Tramp 2.0.39.

Saving a file on a remote server using scp fails if I'm not the owner 
of the file, even though I've write permissions to both the file and 
its directory.

The reason is, I believe, that scp reports failure setting permissions 
on the file, which I'm not allowed to do because I'm not the owner.

A solution would be to just not alter the permissions on existing 
files. Unfortunately scp has no option for this, the only one is -p to 
"Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the 
original file". I guess that it's possible to use this and afterwards 
touch the file, but it sounds a bit awkward. What do you think?

Would it be a good thing to make tramp ignore this particular error?

Or, should I just choose another method than scp?

Thanks in advance, and a happy new year to you all!

Isak Johnsson