[TxMt] TextMate wants my password in order to save a file

[Gavin Kistner]

On Mar 12, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 12/3/2006, at 10:29, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
>
>> from time to time TextMate wants my password in order to save a  
>> file having the following perms :
>
> That it wants password is not always a sign of lack of premissions.  
> Currently it asks for password when it can’t save the file, but  
> think it should be able to (i.e. retrying as root).
>
>> copy the content into the clipboard ;
>> close the file without saving ;
>>
>> re-open the file ;
>>
>> paste the clipboard within this file.
>>
>> have you heard of such a behaviour ?
>
> That’s very strange. TextMate keeps no locks on the file, or keeps  
> it “open”. So closing the window should make absolutely no change  
> to the disk or the state of the file on disk (i.e. open count, or  
> advisory lock state).

FWIW, sometimes when I edit root-owned files, I have to authenticate  
twice in a row before the file saves. But then it saves just fine.

Perhaps the first authentication is one layer, and the second (after  
close/new document) is a second layer?