diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-alpine.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-alpine.yml
index 70179804d1..ab15398ea2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-alpine.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-alpine.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
           # Tests must be run as a non-root user
           mkdir build-default && chown guest:users build-default && cd $_
 
-          sudo -u -i PWD="$PWD" guest \
+          sudo -u guest -i PWD="$PWD" \
             ../configure \
               --prefix="$(pwd)/install" \
               --enable-mclib \