diff --git a/roles/mbs/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mbs/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 92edf75aaa..761318c437 100644
--- a/roles/mbs/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mbs/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 - name: disable the scheduler on the frontend
   copy: >
     src={{ item }} dest=/etc/fedmsg.d/{{ item }}
-    owner=apache group=apache mode=0600
+    owner=fedmsg group=fedmsg mode=0644
   with_items:
   - mbs-scheduler.py
   notify: