diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index d5d0d82f09..9b6f6c8ab0 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   - bodhi
 
 - name: add apache user to the masher group so it can talk to the monitoring socket
-  user: name=apache groups=mock,ftpsync,masher append=yes
+  user: name=apache groups=mock,ftpsync append=yes
   tags:
   - bodhi