diff --git a/sys-power/thermald/thermald-2.4.1.ebuild b/sys-power/thermald/thermald-2.4.1-r1.ebuild
similarity index 90%
rename from sys-power/thermald/thermald-2.4.1.ebuild
rename to sys-power/thermald/thermald-2.4.1-r1.ebuild
index 64693c99c353a..2683a9652ea64 100644
--- a/sys-power/thermald/thermald-2.4.1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-power/thermald/thermald-2.4.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ S=${WORKDIR}/thermal_daemon-${PV}
 DOCS=( thermal_daemon_usage.txt README.txt )
 
 src_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e "/group=/s/power/wheel/g" \
+		data/org.freedesktop.thermald.conf || die
+
 	default
 	eautoreconf
 }