diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc
index 531f203efe..b1e16a924c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "polkit"
 inherit useradd
 
 do_install:prepend() {
-        install -m 700 -d ${D}${datadir}/polkit-1/rules.d
+        install -m 755 -d ${D}${datadir}/polkit-1/rules.d
 }
 
 FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/polkit-1/rules.d"