diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index feee9397..cfbfe7a5 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
             echo "Repository name is ${REPO_NAME}"
             echo "2. Running jupyter-repo2docker..."
             echo "jupyter-repo2docker --debug --image-name ${CONTAINER_NAME} ${REPO_NAME}"
-            USER=username jupyter-repo2docker --debug --image-name "${CONTAINER_NAME}" "${REPO_NAME}"
+            jupyter-repo2docker --debug --user-name username --user-id 1000 --image-name "${CONTAINER_NAME}" "${REPO_NAME}"
       - run:
           name: Docker Save
           no_output_timeout: 40m