I tested and if I change the permissions to XX4 I can read the files
fine,  so this is definitely the problem

On Jun 21, 10:10 pm, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think will solve the problem I am having,  on folders with XX0permissions,  
> I can't read them even when logged into the remote
> system as root.
>
> On May 9, 12:00 am, Amit Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > MacFUSE 0.3.0 can do file permission check in 2 ways:
>
> > 1. If the user-space file system program (such as sshfs-static,
> > curlftpfs, or whatever MacFusion might be using) actually implements a
> > permission check method (the "access" method), MacFUSE will call that
> > method to see if a given user has access to a given file.
>
> > 2. If the user-space file system program doesn't implement an "access"
> > method, then MacFUSE will let your OS X kernel do permission check.
> > However, this relies on the user and group identifiers that are
> > reported by the user-space file system. Typically, your "local" user/
> > group identifiers (on the Mac OS X client) are different from those on
> > your FTP or SSH server. For things to work correctly, the user-space
> > file system must then translate these remote identifiers to match the
> > local ones. Since it's not the kernel that's communicating with the
> > FTP/SSH servers, the kernel has no idea what the mapping is. If the
> > mapping is not there, or is incorrect, the kernel will think you're
> > trying to access somebody else's files, and you may get a permission
> > error.
>
> > This leaves us with the case when the user-space file system neither
> > implements an "access" method, nor does user/group ID mapping. With
> > MacFUSE 0.3.0, if your local user/group ID happens to be different
> > from the remote one, you'll get a permission error for files/
> > directories that don't allow the requested access to "others". This
> > isn't crazy or a serious problem--this is just how file systems work
> > in Mac OS X, or one version of how file systems work.
>
> > One thing MacFUSE could do is to support an option (MacFUSE already
> > has a sickeningly large number of options, many of which end users
> > don't/shouldn't have to understand), say, "defer_auth". If this option
> > is specified at mount time, you're basically telling MacFUSE that you
> > *know* that you have a file system that neither maps user/group IDs,
> > nor implements "access". In that case, MacFUSE will provide a dummy in-
> > kernel version of access that just returns a 0 always (0 means the
> > permission is allowed). In this case, regardless of user/group ID
> > differences, file operations will go through, but they will still fail
> > (as they should) if you *really* don't have access on the server (that
> > is, if your FTP/SSH operation would fail through other FTP/SSH tools,
> > it would fail with MacFUSE; if the operation would succeed because you
> > really have access on the server, the operation would succeed with
> > MacFUSE). This can be thought of as a fallback mechanism. It was sort
> > of like this in MacFUSE release before 0.3.0, but there were some
> > subtle differences I'm too exhausted to explain at this moment.
>
> > "defer_auth" will be in the next version of MacFUSE.


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