diff --git a/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service b/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
index 55a68b15..865e2cd9 100644
--- a/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
+++ b/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
@@ -24,9 +24,13 @@ start() {
     touch /run/pihole-FTL.pid /run/pihole-FTL.port /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole.log /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases
     # Ensure that permissions are set so that pihole-FTL can edit all necessary files
     chown pihole:pihole /run/pihole-FTL.pid /run/pihole-FTL.port /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole.log /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases /run/pihole /etc/pihole
-    chmod 0644 /run/pihole-FTL.pid /run/pihole-FTL.port /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole.log /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases /etc/pihole/macvendor.db
+    chmod 0644 /run/pihole-FTL.pid /run/pihole-FTL.port /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole.log /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases
+    # Ensure that permissions are set so that pihole-FTL can edit the files. We ignore errors as the file may not (yet) exist
+    chmod -f 0644 /etc/pihole/macvendor.db
     # Chown database files to the user FTL runs as. We ignore errors as the files may not (yet) exist
     chown -f pihole:pihole /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db /etc/pihole/gravity.db /etc/pihole/macvendor.db
+    # Chown database file permissions so that the pihole group (web interface) can edit the file. We ignore errors as the files may not (yet) exist
+    chmod -f 0664 /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db
     if setcap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_NET_RAW,CAP_NET_ADMIN,CAP_SYS_NICE,CAP_IPC_LOCK,CAP_CHOWN+eip "/usr/bin/pihole-FTL"; then
       su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pihole-FTL" pihole
     else