diff --git a/britney.conf b/britney.conf
index 4432f79..569e646 100644
--- a/britney.conf
+++ b/britney.conf
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ ADT_SWIFT_USER    =
 ADT_SWIFT_PASS    = 
 ADT_SWIFT_AUTH_URL = 
 ADT_SWIFT_TENANT  = 
+# List of launchpad users/teams that should have read access to any private
+# result logs
+ADT_PRIVATE_SHARED = 
 # Base URL for autopkgtest site, used for links in the excuses
 ADT_CI_URL        = https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/
 ADT_HUGE          = 20
diff --git a/britney.conf.template b/britney.conf.template
index bea5f7d..3855425 100644
--- a/britney.conf.template
+++ b/britney.conf.template
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ ADT_SWIFT_USER    =
 ADT_SWIFT_PASS    = 
 ADT_SWIFT_AUTH_URL = 
 ADT_SWIFT_TENANT  = 
+# List of launchpad users/teams that should have read access to any private
+# result logs
+ADT_PRIVATE_SHARED = 
 # Base URL for autopkgtest site, used for links in the excuses
 ADT_CI_URL        = https://example.com/
 # Enable the huge queue for packages that trigger vast amounts of tests to not
diff --git a/britney2/policies/autopkgtest.py b/britney2/policies/autopkgtest.py
index ec195fa..1a49669 100644
--- a/britney2/policies/autopkgtest.py
+++ b/britney2/policies/autopkgtest.py
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ class AutopkgtestPolicy(BasePolicy):
         except AttributeError:
             self.options.adt_ppas = []
 
+        try:
+            self.options.adt_private_shared = self.options.adt_private_shared.strip().split()
+        except AttributeError:
+            self.options.adt_private_shared = []
+
         self.swift_container = 'autopkgtest-' + options.series
         if self.options.adt_ppas:
             # private PPAs require the auth credentials given + we allow the
@@ -1112,7 +1117,9 @@ class AutopkgtestPolicy(BasePolicy):
         params['submit-time'] = datetime.strftime(datetime.utcnow(), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z')
 
         if self.swift_conn:
-            params['readable-by'] = self.options.adt_swift_user
+            params['swiftuser'] = self.options.adt_swift_user
+            if self.options.adt_private_shared:
+                params['readable-by'] = self.options.adt_private_shared
 
         if self.amqp_channel:
             import amqplib.client_0_8 as amqp
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
index a036b94..3625953 100644
--- a/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ ADT_SWIFT_USER    =
 ADT_SWIFT_PASS    = 
 ADT_SWIFT_AUTH_URL = 
 ADT_SWIFT_TENANT  = 
+ADT_PRIVATE_SHARED = 
 ADT_CI_URL        = https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/
 ADT_HUGE          = 20
 
diff --git a/tests/test_autopkgtest.py b/tests/test_autopkgtest.py
index 7e2d7b8..76ec47c 100644
--- a/tests/test_autopkgtest.py
+++ b/tests/test_autopkgtest.py
@@ -2562,6 +2562,8 @@ class AT(TestAutopkgtestBase):
                 print('ADT_SWIFT_TENANT = tenant')
             elif line.startswith('ADT_SWIFT_AUTH_URL'):
                 print('ADT_SWIFT_AUTH_URL = http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2.0/')
+            elif line.startswith('ADT_PRIVATE_SHARED'):
+                print('ADT_PRIVATE_SHARED = user1 team2')
             else:
                 sys.stdout.write(line)
 
@@ -2576,7 +2578,8 @@ class AT(TestAutopkgtestBase):
         for request in self.amqp_requests:
             self.assertIn('"triggers": ["lightgreen/2"]', request)
             self.assertIn('"ppas": ["first/ppa", "user:password@joe/foo:DEADBEEF"]', request)
-            self.assertIn('"readable-by": "user"', request)
+            self.assertIn('"swiftuser": "user"', request)
+            self.assertIn('"readable-by": ["user1", "team2"]', request)
 
         # add results to PPA specific swift container
         self.swift.set_results({'private-autopkgtest-testing-joe-foo': {
@@ -2642,7 +2645,10 @@ class AT(TestAutopkgtestBase):
         self.assertEqual(len(self.amqp_requests), 2)
         for request in self.amqp_requests:
             self.assertIn('"triggers": ["lightgreen/2"]', request)
-            self.assertIn('"readable-by": "user"', request)
+            self.assertIn('"swiftuser": "user"', request)
+            # we did not give a list of users to give read-access, so make sure
+            # there are none
+            self.assertNotIn('"readable-by"', request)
 
         # add results to PPA specific swift container
         self.swift.set_results({'private-autopkgtest-testing': {
diff --git a/tests/test_policy.py b/tests/test_policy.py
index 553e1b0..bea9f97 100644
--- a/tests/test_policy.py
+++ b/tests/test_policy.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ def initialize_policy(test_name, policy_class, *args, **kwargs):
         adt_swift_pass='',
         adt_swift_tenant='',
         adt_swift_auth_url='',
+        adt_private_shared=[],
         adt_success_bounty=3,
         adt_regression_penalty=False,
         adt_retry_url_mech='run_id',