I'm still working on my backup system, and setting up mount points. I was hoping that if I used "user" (or "users") in the mount command (or in /etc/fstab) that the mounted filesystem would be owned by the user that mounted it. That doesn't (seem to) work.
I could do things like give write permission to everyone, or set up a group with the users that I might want to be able to write to the backup, or set up a user for the specific purpose of doing backups, or do the backups as root, but none of those seem to be appropriate in one way or another. Is there a simple way to have the mounted filesystem be owned by the user that mounts it? (I know something about the -o uid and -o gid options, but (1) that would only work for one specific uid, and (2), iiuc, that works only for filesystems that don't use the Unix permissions (e.g., fat32, ntfs, ...).)