diff --git a/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh b/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh
index 8c590b3..9f784c8 100755
--- a/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh
+++ b/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 
 echo "${_group}Ensuring correct permissions on profiles directory ..."
 
-$dcr --no-deps --entrypoint /bin/bash --user root vroom -c 'chown -R vroom:vroom /var/vroom/sentry-profiles && chmod -R o+rwx /var/vroom/sentry-profiles'
+# Check if the parent directory of /var/vroom/sentry-profiles is already owned by vroom:vroom
+if [ "$(stat -c '%U:%G' /var/vroom)" = "vroom:vroom" ]; then
+  echo "Ownership of /var/vroom is already set to vroom:vroom. Skipping chown."
+else
+  $dcr --no-deps --entrypoint /bin/bash --user root vroom -c 'chown -R vroom:vroom /var/vroom/sentry-profiles && chmod -R o+rwx /var/vroom/sentry-profiles'
+fi
 
 echo "${_endgroup}"