diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc
index f57ca2611bd..531f203efe1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit-group-rule.inc
@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "polkit"
 
 inherit useradd
 
+do_install:prepend() {
+        install -m 700 -d ${D}${datadir}/polkit-1/rules.d
+}
+
 FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/polkit-1/rules.d"