diff -Nru sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/changelog sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/changelog
--- sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/changelog	2012-04-28 02:18:29.000000000 +0000
+++ sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/changelog	2012-09-14 18:23:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+sshfs-fuse (2.4-1ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
+
+  * Return the correct X_OK access for sshfs mounts (LP: #1017870).
+
+ -- Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@gmail.com>  Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:22:37 -0400
+
 sshfs-fuse (2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream version.
diff -Nru sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/control sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/control
--- sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/control	2012-04-28 02:00:25.000000000 +0000
+++ sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/control	2012-09-14 18:21:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: sshfs-fuse
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debian.org>
 Uploaders: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), autoconf, automake, libglib2.0-dev, libfuse-dev, pkg-config
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
diff -Nru sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/lp1017870.patch sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/lp1017870.patch
--- sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/lp1017870.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/lp1017870.patch	2012-09-14 18:18:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+Description: Return the correct X_OK access for sshfs mounts
+ sshfs-fuse always returned 0 in access(file, X_OK) calls, causing nautilus
+ to prompt "Do you want to run "login.defs", or display its contents?" for
+ text files that were not executable.
+ .
+ sshfs-fuse (2.4-1ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
+ .
+   * Return the correct X_OK access for sshfs mounts (LP: #1017870).
+Author: Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@gmail.com>
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017870
+Origin: upstream, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29804620
+
+--- sshfs-fuse-2.4.orig/sshfs.c
++++ sshfs-fuse-2.4/sshfs.c
+@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ struct sshfs {
+ 	int ext_statvfs;
+ 	int ext_hardlink;
+ 	mode_t mnt_mode;
++	struct fuse_operations *op;
+ 
+ 	/* statistics */
+ 	uint64_t bytes_sent;
+@@ -1915,6 +1916,22 @@ static int sshfs_getattr(const char *pat
+ 	return err;
+ }
+ 
++static int sshfs_access(const char *path, int mask)
++{
++	struct stat stbuf;
++	int err = 0;
++
++	if (mask & X_OK) {
++		err = sshfs.op->getattr(path, &stbuf);
++		if (!err) {
++			if (S_ISREG(stbuf.st_mode) &&
++			    !(stbuf.st_mode & (S_IXUSR|S_IXGRP|S_IXOTH)))
++				err = -EACCES;
++		}
++	}
++	return err;
++}
++
+ static int count_components(const char *p)
+ {
+ 	int ctr;
+@@ -3115,6 +3132,7 @@ static struct fuse_cache_operations sshf
+ 	.oper = {
+ 		.init       = sshfs_init,
+ 		.getattr    = sshfs_getattr,
++		.access     = sshfs_access,
+ 		.readlink   = sshfs_readlink,
+ 		.mknod      = sshfs_mknod,
+ 		.mkdir      = sshfs_mkdir,
+@@ -3215,10 +3233,11 @@ static int is_ssh_opt(const char *arg)
+ 
+ static int sshfs_fuse_main(struct fuse_args *args)
+ {
++	sshfs.op = cache_init(&sshfs_oper);
+ #if FUSE_VERSION >= 26
+-	return fuse_main(args->argc, args->argv, cache_init(&sshfs_oper), NULL);
++	return fuse_main(args->argc, args->argv, sshfs.op, NULL);
+ #else
+-	return fuse_main(args->argc, args->argv, cache_init(&sshfs_oper));
++	return fuse_main(args->argc, args->argv, sshfs.op);
+ #endif
+ }
+ 
+@@ -3856,7 +3875,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+ 		if (res == -1)
+ 			perror("WARNING: failed to set FD_CLOEXEC on fuse device");
+ 
+-		fuse = fuse_new(ch, &args, cache_init(&sshfs_oper),
++		sshfs.op = cache_init(&sshfs_oper);
++		fuse = fuse_new(ch, &args, sshfs.op,
+ 				sizeof(struct fuse_operations), NULL);
+ 		if (fuse == NULL) {
+ 			fuse_unmount(mountpoint, ch);
+--- sshfs-fuse-2.4.orig/cache.c
++++ sshfs-fuse-2.4/cache.c
+@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ static void cache_unity_fill(struct fuse
+ 	cache_oper->init        = oper->oper.init;
+ #endif
+ 	cache_oper->getattr     = oper->oper.getattr;
++	cache_oper->access	= oper->oper.access;
+ 	cache_oper->readlink    = oper->oper.readlink;
+ 	cache_oper->getdir      = cache_unity_getdir;
+ 	cache_oper->mknod       = oper->oper.mknod;
diff -Nru sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/series sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/series
--- sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/series	2012-04-28 01:19:42.000000000 +0000
+++ sshfs-fuse-2.4/debian/patches/series	2012-09-14 18:16:35.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 sshfs.1
 lintianisation.patch
+lp1017870.patch