diff --git a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/gitlab-shell.rb b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/gitlab-shell.rb
index d8b3f09..a156cc9 100644
--- a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/gitlab-shell.rb
+++ b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/gitlab-shell.rb
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ end
 
 directory log_directory do
   owner git_user
+  mode "0700"
   recursive true
 end
 
--
libgit2 0.21.2