distutils:permissions problems

[Eric S. Johansson]

I'm developing Python code on multiple VM Ware guest OS running ubuntu. 
  I need to share common file space so that each of these guest 
instances will have complete access to the to all of the files.

The problem is that, because of a quirk (or misfeature) of VM Ware 
shared filesystem, all of the directories and files are owned by root 
with a 700 permissions.  When I run setup.py install, they are installed 
as root with 700 permissions.  How can I alter the behavior of distutils 
so that my modules could be installed with a more useful user and 
permissions?


many thanks

---eric