diff --git a/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
index 33c4877185..a1300bef0b 100644
--- a/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -154,8 +154,7 @@
   notify: restart nagios
 
 - name: Copy Matrix-Notify script
-  copy: src=scripts/matrix-notify.sh dest=/usr/local/bin/
-  mode: '700'
+  copy: src=scripts/matrix-notify.sh dest=/usr/local/bin/ mode=0700 owner=root group=root
   tags:
   - nagios_config
   - nagios_server