SJSWS 7.0U1 - Resets Permissions on Deploy Changes

I have several web server configurations (single instance of each config, no additional virtual servers), and since each config belongs to a different client/user:group, the permissons on the config directory are set to reflect these ownerships, mostly user-only-accessible.
For admin purposes, I like to modify (loosen) these permissions to make them group-accessible (to the admin group). Whether or not this is a particularly good idea could be a discussion for another day :-)
My problem is that each time I make changes to a configuration, the act of deploying the changes to the web server instance (using the GUI/Admin Console) resets the ownerships & permissions in the config directory to be user-accessible to the client user:group, i.e. as it was at creation.
This means I then have to change ownership/permissions to get back to (my idea of) a correct configuration.
Is there any way to either:
1. Prevent SJSWS from doing this in the first place, or
2. Trigger my script to reset permissions after deployment
I'm probably onto a loser here, but I figured I ask in case anyone else has tripped over this and discovered a solution!
Thanks for any input.

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