Access Handling and Security By default, files and directories are owned by the effective user and group of the mounting process and everybody has full read, write, exe‐ cution and directory browsing permissions. If you want to use permis‐ sions handling then use the uid and/or the gid options together with the umask, or fmask and dmask options. Windows users have full access to the files created by ntfs-3g. If ntfs-3g is set setuid-root then non-root users will be also able to mount block devices or via /etc/fstab if the ’user’ or ’users’ mount(8) option is specified. The ntfs-3g process drops the root privilege after successful mount and runs unprivileged afterwards. [...] uid=value and gid=value Set the owner and the group of files and directories. The values are numerical. The defaults are the uid and gid of the current process.