diff --git a/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd b/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd
index 02ea1b9d4..e3927f10c 100755
--- a/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd
+++ b/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ sub updateGrubOnNodes {
 	my @output = runcmd('which modifygrub');
 	my $modifygrub = $output[0];
 	chomp($modifygrub);
-	my $cmd = "xdsh $nr --sudo -e $modifygrub $vtxt $dtxt -w $WAITTIME -p " . $bootparms->{osimageprovmethod} . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{kernel}) . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{initrd}) . ' ';
+        my $euser ="root";
+	my $cmd = "xdsh $nr -l $euser -e $modifygrub $vtxt $dtxt -w $WAITTIME -p " . $bootparms->{osimageprovmethod} . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{kernel}) . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{initrd}) . ' ';
 	# we need to quote the kernel parms, both here when passing it to xdsh, and on the node
 	# when xdsh is passing it to modifygrub. The way to get single quotes inside single quotes
 	# is to quote each of the outer single quotes with double quotes.