presence of non readable file (for that user) on remote host breaks path-full-info (and thus upload/download)

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remote dir:

~$ ls -alF
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 5 crispin crispin 4096 Jun  6  2020 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root    root    4096 Oct 23  2017 ../
-rw------- 1 crispin crispin  464 Jul 19 03:34 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 crispin crispin  220 Aug 31  2015 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 crispin crispin 3771 Aug 31  2015 .bashrc
drwx------ 2 crispin crispin 4096 Oct 23  2017 .cache/
-rw-r--r-- 1 crispin crispin    0 Oct 21  2017 .cloud-locale-test.skip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 crispin crispin    0 Jun  6  2020 here
-rw-r--r-- 1 crispin crispin  655 May 16  2017 .profile
drwx------ 2 crispin crispin 4096 Feb 22  2020 .ssh/
-rw------- 1 root    root     633 Apr 27  2020 .viminfo

When connecting as user crispin, the presence of .viminfo with owner root breaks remote/path-full-info

----- Error --------------------------------------------------------------------
Type:     java.lang.NumberFormatException
Message:  For input string: "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
Location: /tank/dev/epiccastle/spire/bb-example.clj:14:1

----- Context ------------------------------------------------------------------
10:          '[pod.epiccastle.spire.module.upload :as upload])
11: 
12: (prn 'running)
13: 
14: (transport/ssh "crispin@localhost"
    ^--- For input string: "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"