diff --git a/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile b/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile
index 0a50cf3..ec3d131 100755
--- a/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile
+++ b/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 #
 # Used in Makefile
 # EPRINTS_ROOT: /path/to/eprints/installation
+# EPRINTS_USER: the user that owns the EPrints directory
+# EPRINTS_GROUP: the group that owns the EPrints directory
 #
 # Used in ARCHIVE.xml configuration file
 # EPRINTS_HOST: eprints host name
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@
 		--recursive --times . $(EPRINTS_ROOT)/archives > .del-rsync-output
 	@-grep $(ARCHIVE_NAME) .del-rsync-output
 	@announce "Correcting ownership..."
-	sudo chown -R $(EPRINTS_USER):$(EPRINTS_USER) $(ARCHIVE_CONFIG) $(ARCHIVE_ROOT)
+	sudo chown -R $(EPRINTS_USER):$(EPRINTS_GROUP) $(ARCHIVE_CONFIG) $(ARCHIVE_ROOT)
 	@-grep --quiet "$(ARCHIVE_NAME)\\.xml" .del-rsync-output && $(MAKE) generate_apacheconf
 	@-grep --quiet "$(ARCHIVE_NAME)/cfg/subjects" .del-rsync-output && $(MAKE) import_subjects
 	@-grep --quiet "\\(otago_eprints/cfg/static/\\)\\|\\(\\.xml\\)" .del-rsync-output && $(MAKE) generate_static