diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-checkout.c b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-checkout.c
index bb7c1771..2b259464 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-checkout.c
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-checkout.c
@@ -749,8 +749,18 @@ checkout_tree_at_recurse (OstreeRepo                        *self,
    */
   if (!did_exist)
     {
-      if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (fchmod (destination_dfd, mode)) < 0)
-        return glnx_throw_errno (error);
+      guint32 canonical_mode;
+      /* Silently ignore world-writable directories (plus sticky, suid bits,
+       * etc.) when doing a checkout for bare-user-only repos. This is related
+       * to the logic in ostree-repo-commit.c for files.
+       * See also: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/909 i.e. 0c4b3a2b6da950fd78e63f9afec602f6188f1ab0
+       */
+      if (self->mode == OSTREE_REPO_MODE_BARE_USER_ONLY)
+        canonical_mode = (mode & 0775) | S_IFDIR;
+      else
+        canonical_mode = mode;
+      if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (fchmod (destination_dfd, canonical_mode)) < 0)
+        return glnx_throw_errno_prefix (error, "fchmod");
     }
 
   if (!did_exist && options->mode != OSTREE_REPO_CHECKOUT_MODE_USER)
diff --git a/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh b/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh
index deca0e00..29fbbdd3 100755
--- a/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh
+++ b/tests/test-basic-user-only.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 . $(dirname $0)/libtest.sh
 
 setup_test_repository "bare-user-only"
-extra_basic_tests=2
+extra_basic_tests=3
 . $(dirname $0)/basic-test.sh
 
 # Reset things so we don't inherit a lot of state from earlier tests
@@ -59,3 +59,15 @@ $CMD_PREFIX ostree pull-local --repo=repo repo-input
 $CMD_PREFIX ostree --repo=repo checkout -U -H content-with-group-writable groupwritable-co
 assert_file_has_mode groupwritable-co/some-group-writable 664
 echo "ok supported group writable"
+
+cd ${test_tmpdir}
+rm repo-input -rf
+ostree_repo_init repo-input init --mode=archive
+rm files -rf && mkdir files
+mkdir files/worldwritable-dir
+chmod a+w files/worldwritable-dir
+$CMD_PREFIX ostree --repo=repo-input commit -b content-with-dir-world-writable --tree=dir=files
+$CMD_PREFIX ostree pull-local --repo=repo repo-input
+$CMD_PREFIX ostree --repo=repo checkout -U -H content-with-dir-world-writable dir-co
+assert_file_has_mode dir-co/worldwritable-dir 775
+echo "ok didn't make world-writable dir"