diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 47d5addb5..d93218db4 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -607,6 +607,8 @@ up_to_2.4.50() {
   echo "Adding /opt/so/rules to file_roots in /etc/salt/master using so-yaml"
   so-yaml.py append /etc/salt/master file_roots.base /opt/so/rules/nids
   echo "Moving Suricata rules"
+  mkdir /opt/so/rules/nids/suri
+  chown socore:socore /opt/so/rules/nids/suri
   mv -v /opt/so/rules/nids/*.rules /opt/so/rules/nids/suri/.
 
   INSTALLEDVERSION=2.4.50