When a filesystem is mounted vi sshfs, what is checking the
permissions on files and directories?  Is it sshfs, MacFuse, Mac OS X,
or the remote server?

I am mounting a remote server that is an AFS client.  I need to access
some files and directories that are in the AFS hierarchy on that
server.  For the most part, traditional file permission modes, owners,
and groups on directories are meaningless in AFS.  In our AFS space,
users don't do much with owner and group settings on directories and
they choose somewhat random modes.  For example, the mode of a
directory may say that it's not writable and I'm not the owner or in
the group listed for the directory, but if the AFS access control
lists (ACLs) say that I can write to the directory, then I can do it.
The same applies to the execute mode bits, they are unimportant, I can
change into a directory that doesn't have the execute bit set if the
ACLs let me do it.

The problem I have now is that these directories in AFS don't have the
execute bit set, so I can't access them through sshfs.  So I think
that sshfs, MacFuse, or Mac OS X is evaluating the mode on those
directories and not letting me in.  Is there some way to prevent that
local evaluation?  Just send the request to the remote server and if
it gets denied there, then report an error?
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