diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient b/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
index 7eade1e2..6375fdc3 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ def msg_align(len):
 
 cryptname = ctypes.util.find_library('crypt')
 if not cryptname:
-    if os.path.exists('/lib64/libcrypt.so.1'):
-        cryptname = 'libcrypt.so.1'
-    elif os.path.exists('/lib64/libcrypt.so.2'):
+    if os.path.exists('/lib64/libcrypt.so.2') or os.path.exists('/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.2'):
         cryptname = 'libcrypt.so.2'
+    else:
+        cryptname = 'libcrypt.so.1'
 c_libcrypt = ctypes.CDLL(cryptname)
 c_crypt = c_libcrypt.crypt
 c_crypt.argtypes = (ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_char_p)