On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 07:47:14PM +0000, Joe wrote: > I believe a mount point will always be owned by root, regardless of the > permissions of the underlying directory, because only root is allowed > to mount things. unicorn:~$ mkdir mtpt unicorn:~$ ls -ld mtpt drwxr-xr-x 2 greg greg 4096 Dec 9 15:22 mtpt/ unicorn:~$ sshfs remote: mtpt unicorn:~$ ls -ld mtpt drwxr-xr-x 1 greg greg 4096 Dec 6 23:09 mtpt/ FUSE changes a few things.