diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb
index 2845b8c..e1c33a6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 do_install_append() {
 	rmdir ${D}${datadir}/mkelfImage/elf32-i386
 	rmdir ${D}${datadir}/mkelfImage
+	chown root:root ${D}/${sbindir}/mkelfImage
 }
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"