diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/sogo.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/sogo.nix
index 78b577f18f28..110241807766 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/sogo.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/sogo.nix
@@ -2,17 +2,13 @@
   cfg = config.services.sogo;
 
   preStart = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "sogo-prestart" ''
-    touch /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
-    chown sogo:sogo /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
-    chmod 640 /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
-
     ${if (cfg.configReplaces != {}) then ''
       # Insert secrets
       ${concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList (k: v: ''export ${k}="$(cat "${v}" | tr -d '\n')"'') cfg.configReplaces)}
 
-      ${pkgs.perl}/bin/perl -p ${concatStringsSep " " (mapAttrsToList (k: v: '' -e 's/${k}/''${ENV{"${k}"}}/g;' '') cfg.configReplaces)} /etc/sogo/sogo.conf.raw > /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
+      ${pkgs.perl}/bin/perl -p ${concatStringsSep " " (mapAttrsToList (k: v: '' -e 's/${k}/''${ENV{"${k}"}}/g;' '') cfg.configReplaces)} /etc/sogo/sogo.conf.raw | install -m 640 -o sogo -g sogo /dev/stdin /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
     '' else ''
-      cp /etc/sogo/sogo.conf.raw /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
+      install -m 640 -o sogo -g sogo /etc/sogo/sogo.conf.raw /etc/sogo/sogo.conf
     ''}
   '';