diff --git a/bin/installbfa.sh b/bin/installbfa.sh
index de9d2b386082fa4475bbac4e37a4efc9caac0d65..f95aef8b1970b1da9a030cb36e2274cd57961783 100755
--- a/bin/installbfa.sh
+++ b/bin/installbfa.sh
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ function initgenesis
         then 
             info "Node is not initialised. Initialising with genesis."
             geth --networkid ${BFANETWORKID} --cache 0 --datadir "${BFANODEDIR}" init "${BFANETWORKDIR}/genesis.json"
+            chown -R bfa:bfa ~bfa
         fi
     )
 }