diff --git a/ansible/deploy.yaml b/ansible/deploy.yaml
index c59b51e3093434163ef8369de6827c90f3181053..94a646ad6461fcfbe0c1dbd86119c9d98a1d9855 100644
--- a/ansible/deploy.yaml
+++ b/ansible/deploy.yaml
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
     - name: restart postgresql service
       systemd: state=restarted name=postgresql enabled=yes
     - postgresql_user:
+      become_user: "postgres"
         name: "{{ dbuser }}"
         password: "{{ dbpassword }}"
         role_attr_flags: CREATEDB,NOSUPERUSER