diff --git a/Earthfile b/Earthfile
index 355a207a..acdf7205 100644
--- a/Earthfile
+++ b/Earthfile
@@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ provider-image:
                 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y lsb-release && \
                 echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/postgresql-common/pgdg/apt.postgresql.org.asc] https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list && \
                 apt-get update && \
+                usermod -aG sudo root && \
                 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y postgresql-16 postgresql-contrib-16 iputils-ping
         ELSE IF [ "$OS_DISTRIBUTION" = "opensuse-leap" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ]
             RUN zypper --non-interactive --quiet addrepo --refresh -p 90 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:database:postgresql/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ PostgreSQL && \