diff --git a/lib/sugar/bundle/bundle.py b/lib/sugar/bundle/bundle.py
index 33fd1a81..f7f18c9e 100644
--- a/lib/sugar/bundle/bundle.py
+++ b/lib/sugar/bundle/bundle.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class Bundle:
             raise AlreadyInstalledException
 
         if not os.path.isdir(install_dir):
-            os.mkdir(install_dir)
+            os.mkdir(install_dir, 0775)
 
         # zipfile provides API that in theory would let us do this
         # correctly by hand, but handling all the oddities of
diff --git a/lib/sugar/env.py b/lib/sugar/env.py
index c46b7d07..dc763c14 100644
--- a/lib/sugar/env.py
+++ b/lib/sugar/env.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def get_profile_path(path=None):
     base = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~/.sugar'), profile_id)
     if not os.path.isdir(base):
         try:
-            os.makedirs(base)
+            os.makedirs(base, 0770)
         except OSError, exc:
             print "Could not create user directory."