diff --git a/bugzilla/base.py b/bugzilla/base.py
index 9925850..54c89d5 100644
--- a/bugzilla/base.py
+++ b/bugzilla/base.py
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ class BugzillaBase(object):
     def _query(self,query):
         '''IMPLEMENT ME: Query bugzilla and return a list of matching bugs.'''
         raise NotImplementedError
-    def _updateperms(self,user,action,group)
+    def _updateperms(self,user,action,group):
         '''IMPLEMEMT ME: Update Bugzilla user permissions'''
         raise NotImplementedError
 
@@ -648,15 +648,15 @@ class BugzillaBase(object):
         bug_id = self._createbug(**data)
         return Bug(self,bug_id=bug_id)
         # Trivia: this method has ~5.8 lines of comment per line of code. Yow!
-    def updateperms(self,user,action,group):
+    def updateperms(self,user,action,groups):
         '''A method to update  the permissions (group membership) of a bugzilla
         user. Takes the following:
 
         user: The e-mail address of the user to be acted upon
         action: either add or rem
-        group: the group to be added to (i.e. fedora_contrib)'''
-        self._perms = self._updateperms(user,action,group)
-        return self._perms
+        groups: list of groups to be added to (i.e. ['fedora_contrib'])
+        '''
+        self._updateperms(user,action,groups)
 
 class CookieResponse:
     '''Fake HTTPResponse object that we can fill with headers we got elsewhere.
diff --git a/bugzilla/rhbugzilla.py b/bugzilla/rhbugzilla.py
index 7e58a01..8eeed0d 100644
--- a/bugzilla/rhbugzilla.py
+++ b/bugzilla/rhbugzilla.py
@@ -327,9 +327,9 @@ class RHBugzilla(bugzilla.base.BugzillaBase):
         r = self._proxy.bugzilla.createBug(data)
         return r[0]
     # Methods for updating a user
-    def _updateperms(self,user,action,group):
-        r = self._proxy.bugzilla.updatePerms(user,action,group)
-        return r[0]
+    def _updateperms(self,user,action,groups):
+        r = self._proxy.bugzilla.updatePerms(user, action, groups, self.user)
+        return r
 
 class RHBugzilla3(Bugzilla32, RHBugzilla):
     '''Concrete implementation of the Bugzilla protocol. This one uses the