diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 6c337e23567..1ba926f5815 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -993,6 +993,7 @@ EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/%N
 EnvironmentFile=-${FILE_K3S_ENV}
 KillMode=process
 Delegate=yes
+User=root
 # Having non-zero Limit*s causes performance problems due to accounting overhead
 # in the kernel. We recommend using cgroups to do container-local accounting.
 LimitNOFILE=1048576
diff --git a/install.sh.sha256sum b/install.sh.sha256sum
index 6ee6bdbb8bc..12650287bae 100644
--- a/install.sh.sha256sum
+++ b/install.sh.sha256sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-527dc64257a261b83042eb550f24648d2664656e8aef3d4633ac2a746848c6ae  install.sh
+9d5fc42bf825d3e8dcc8682c8bac071b1de18019af81f85519ccbe5c919e0896  install.sh