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-rw-r--r--src/libstore/local-store.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index 7b7d6cfa2545..6d2e21b931a9 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ void LocalStore::createUser(const std::string & userName, uid_t userId)
         createDirs(dir);
         if (chmod(dir.c_str(), 0755) == -1)
             throw SysError("changing permissions of directory '%s'", dir);
-        if (chown(dir.c_str(), userId, -1) == -1)
+        if (chown(dir.c_str(), userId, 0) == -1)
             throw SysError("changing owner of directory '%s'", dir);
     }
 }