I'd like to withdraw my statement that it works in Debian, which is _not_ true. Debians OO.o and gnomevfs (whichever is the problem) suffer from the same issue.
But, as stated above, gedit does open/save files on a sftp share if either owner or group has read permission, like one would expect it. Based on that, I think the bug is in OO.o and would like to provide additional information to help resolve it. ** Changed in: gnome-vfs2 (Debian) Sourcepackagename: gnome-vfs2 => openoffice.org -- Openoffice won't open files using sftp:// in read/write mode https://launchpad.net/bugs/41985 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
