diff --git a/grafana.changes b/grafana.changes
index eb9b8b7..19b00b9 100644
--- a/grafana.changes
+++ b/grafana.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul 11 08:21:07 UTC 2019 - Jan Fajerski <jan.fajerski@suse.com>
+
+- spec file change:
+  * alter permissions of /etc/grafana and /var/lib/grafana to 755
+  * alter owner of /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards tree to root:root
+  * this allows installing dashboards via rpms without these rpms depending on this rpm
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 25 19:12:43 UTC 2019 - dmueller@suse.com
 
diff --git a/grafana.spec b/grafana.spec
index 884a002..0510c40 100644
--- a/grafana.spec
+++ b/grafana.spec
@@ -132,15 +132,15 @@ getent passwd %{GRAFANA_GROUP} > /dev/null || useradd -r -g %{GRAFANA_GROUP} \
 %{_sbindir}/rc%{name}-server
 %{_unitdir}/%{name}-server.service
 %{_fillupdir}/sysconfig.%{name}-server
-%attr(0750,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}
-%attr(0750,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/provisioning
-%attr(0750,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/provisioning/dashboards
-%attr(0750,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/conf
+%attr(0755,root,root) %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}
+%attr(0755,root,root) %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/provisioning
+%attr(0755,root,root) %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/provisioning/dashboards
+%attr(0755,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}/conf
 %attr(0640,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/%{name}.ini
 %attr(0640,root,%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/ldap.toml
-%attr(0750,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}
-%attr(0750,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/plugins
-%attr(0750,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/dashboards
+%attr(0755,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}
+%attr(0755,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/plugins
+%attr(0755,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/dashboards
 %attr(0750,%{GRAFANA_USER},%{GRAFANA_GROUP}) %dir %{_localstatedir}/log/%{name}
 %doc %{_datadir}/%{name}/conf/sample.ini
 %doc %{_datadir}/%{name}/conf/provisioning/dashboards/sample.yaml