diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index c506f18bb2a2b8740b103e776c8f3120851e9d7d..eb2e0d019b9f379bb33ba09006659d1b58af23ab 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ LABEL name="ActiveMQ" \
       version=$VERSION \
       summary="Apache ActiveMQ™ is the most popular open source, multi-protocol, Java-based messaging server. " 
 
+USER root
+
 COPY ${DISTRO_NAME}.tar.gz /opt
      
 RUN tar -zxf /opt/${DISTRO_NAME}.tar.gz -C /opt && \