diff --git a/metricsd/metrics_collector.rc b/metricsd/metrics_collector.rc
index 2e7e0ae60..3dcb2d7a9 100644
--- a/metricsd/metrics_collector.rc
+++ b/metricsd/metrics_collector.rc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 service metricscollector /system/bin/metrics_collector --foreground --logtosyslog
     class late_start
-    user system
-    group system dbus
+    user metrics_coll
+    group metrics_coll dbus
diff --git a/metricsd/metricsd.rc b/metricsd/metricsd.rc
index 359d0d129..825c87f58 100644
--- a/metricsd/metricsd.rc
+++ b/metricsd/metricsd.rc
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 on post-fs-data
-    mkdir /data/misc/metrics 0770 system system
-    mkdir /data/misc/metricsd 0700 system system
-    mkdir /data/misc/metrics_collector 0700 system system
+    mkdir /data/misc/metrics 0750 metrics_coll system
+    mkdir /data/misc/metricsd 0700 metricsd metricsd
+    mkdir /data/misc/metrics_collector 0700 metrics_coll metrics_coll
 
 service metricsd /system/bin/metricsd --foreground --logtosyslog
     class late_start
-    user system
+    user metricsd
     group system dbus inet