diff --git a/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd b/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd
index 62c19d8ba..2eaac1602 100755
--- a/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd
+++ b/xCAT-SoftLayer/bin/pushinitrd
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ if ($bootparms{osimageprovmethod} eq 'sysclone') { copySyscloneFiles(); }
 
 exit(0);
 
+sub isRedhat { return (-e '/etc/redhat-release' || -e '/etc/centos-release' || -e '/etc/fedora-release'); } 
 
 # Query the db for the kernel, initrd, and kcmdline attributes of the 1st node in the noderange
 sub getBootParms {
@@ -132,7 +133,17 @@ sub updateGrubOnNodes {
 	my @output = runcmd('which modifygrub');
 	my $modifygrub = $output[0];
 	chomp($modifygrub);
-	my $cmd = "xdsh $nr -e $modifygrub $vtxt $dtxt -w $WAITTIME -p " . $bootparms->{osimageprovmethod} . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{kernel}) . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{initrd}) . ' ';
+        my @auser = runcmd('whoami');
+        chop(@auser);
+        my $cmd;
+        if($auser[0] eq "root")
+        {
+        $cmd = "xdsh $nr -e $modifygrub $vtxt $dtxt -w $WAITTIME -p " . $bootparms->{osimageprovmethod} . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{kernel}) . ' ' . remoteFilename($bootparms->{initrd}) . ' ';
+        }
+        else
+        {
+	$cmd = "xdsh $nr -l $auser[0] --sudo -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.
@@ -216,8 +227,16 @@ sub modifyAutoinstFiles {
 	foreach my $n (@nodes) {
 		my $f = "/install/autoinst/$n";
 		my ($ip, $netmask, $gateway) = getNodeIpInfo($n);
-		runcmd("sed -i 's/#NODEIPADDR#/$ip/;s/#NODENETMASK#/$netmask/;s/#NODEGATEWAY#/$gateway/' $f");
-
+                my @auser = runcmd('whoami');
+                chop(@auser);
+                if($auser[0] eq "root")
+                {
+                runcmd("sed -i 's/#NODEIPADDR#/$ip/;s/#NODENETMASK#/$netmask/;s/#NODEGATEWAY#/$gateway/' $f");
+                }
+                else
+                {
+		runcmd("sudo sed -i 's/#NODEIPADDR#/$ip/;s/#NODENETMASK#/$netmask/;s/#NODEGATEWAY#/$gateway/' $f");
+                }
 		my $matches = sed($f, $search, $replace, mode=>'insertbefore');
 		if (!$matches) { die "Error: could not find the right place in $f to insert the sed of the network wait.\n"; }
 	}