When I ssh in to my vagrant vm, I can change permissions of files and folders above and outside the vagrant user folder, and for files within the vagrant user folder. But ca
Can't comment just yet, but to extend on MDeSilva's answer for Vagrant 1.7.2:
Might be obvious to some, but the group and owner should be in quotes.
group: "sync_group", owner: "sync_owner", mount_options: ['dmode=755, fmode=644']