diff --git a/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
index b5c6afff40..d581f17464 100644
--- a/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
   - nagios_server
 
 - name: Copy plugins
-  synchronize: src=plugins/ dest=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/
+  copy: src=plugins/ dest=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/ mode=0755 owner=root group=root
   tags:
   - nagios_server