diff --git a/osc/conf.py b/osc/conf.py
index 06e93d130..d53867e69 100644
--- a/osc/conf.py
+++ b/osc/conf.py
@@ -1869,7 +1869,8 @@ def get_config(override_conffile=None,
 
         # make sure oscrc is not world readable, it may contain a password
         conffile_stat = os.stat(conffile)
-        if conffile_stat.st_mode != 0o600:
+        # applying 0o7777 mask because we want to ignore the file type bits
+        if conffile_stat.st_mode & 0o7777 != 0o600:
             try:
                 os.chmod(conffile, 0o600)
             except OSError as e: