When I plug in a USB drive, it is mounted in /media/$USER/LABEL where "LABEL" is the label on the USB drive. If it is an NTFS drive, it is mounted with umask=000 and dmask=0000 which means that every directory and every file is readable, writeable and executable by every user. It would be nice if I could control the permissions on every file independently, but it doesn't seem like that is possible with NTFS. I can use ntfs-3g to mount a USB drive like this... sudo ntfs-3g -o permissions,umask=133,dmask=022,uid=$UID,gid=$GROUPS /dev/sda1 mntpnt ...and though I can't change the permissions for individual files or directories, the directory permissions are 755 and the file permissions are 644, which is what I usually want to see. I wouldn't mind 777 and 666, but I don't want the files to be 777! (For one, it turns off all the nice LS_COLORS.) So that is a kind of solution, but it doesn't happen automatically. What happens automatically seems to be something like this: udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda1 -o rw,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,uhelper=udisks2 But if I try to add umask or dmask to those mount options, it doesn't work. Do any of you have a suggestion? I could always configure fstab for drives I use often, but for any random NTFS drive, it would be nice if the system automatically gave me what I want. Mike