The mode of the mountpoint does not influence the mode of the mounted file system. It is completely independend.

By default:
Owner of the file system is the mounting user, group is the primary group of the mounting user and the mode of files and directories is derifed from the umask variable of the mounting user.

Non default:
You can use the mount options uid, gid, file_mode and dir_mode to set this values at mount time.

Please see "man mount.davfs" for details.

Werner

Hi,

When we mount a linux direcotory using davfs2, then the original file permissions are being altered on the mounted path. For example, if a file - File1.txt has 000 pemission on it, when it is mounted onto say /mnt/mount path as some user User1, then when we check the permission of the File1.txt in /mnt/mount path, it shows 444 (i.e only READ access is available for all users). But you cant copy the file from the path /mnt/mount because it fails with error - cannot open `File1.txt' for reading: Invalid argument

This means, File1.txt is being wrongly shown as having read permission on the mounted path. So, davfs2 mount is adding a default read permission on the files in the mounted path but in reality, that file dont have the read permission.

Can you please help to understand, how we can retain the original file metmissions in the mounted path?