Comment 2 for bug 697792

It's easy to set the mode in debian/rules, and in fact it looks like that's already done. The problem is setting the group ownership because group 'fuse' either doesn't exist on the build machine, or probably does not match the target machine. So that has to be done in fuse-utils.postinst.

The group is added if it does not exist, so I propose that if the group gets added in fuse-utils.postint, the ownership of /etc/fuse.conf should also be changed. I think it's highly unlikely that the fuse group would not exist but /etc/fuse.conf would exist.