diff --git a/values.yaml b/values.yaml
index 0e85651a5be5cdf4ed1f3f6222e7ec0f602e7d5d..248fee6c7609b0ff572c3649822d65e12205efdc 100644
--- a/values.yaml
+++ b/values.yaml
@@ -217,8 +217,6 @@ service:
 ## task. Feel free to override these if necessary
 ansibleVars:
   wordpress_homedir: /var/www/html
-  wp_user: www-data
-  wp_group: www-data
   config_user: nobody
   config_group: nogroup
   dbcharset: utf8mb4
diff --git a/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-init/tasks/main.yml b/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-init/tasks/main.yml
index 774a6398920647f082365f962ed7ea12a862861e..b4bab4f48297c0e5c8091c0421388aaa1db99f89 100644
--- a/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-init/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-init/tasks/main.yml
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 - name: Prepare wp-config permissions if it exists
   file:
     path: "{{ wordpress_homedir }}/wp-config.php"
-    owner: "{{ wp_user }}"
-    group: "{{ wp_group }}"
+    owner: 33
+    group: 33
     mode: 0640
   ignore_errors: true
   when: config.stat.exists
diff --git a/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-permissions/tasks/main.yml b/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-permissions/tasks/main.yml
index 8e6d7f2f9d6ab612ac2f1139e085c8ce36174d0e..84583390c64334b697cd0b0da994f4247ca039b8 100644
--- a/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-permissions/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/wp-cli-docker/roles/wordpress-permissions/tasks/main.yml
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@
 # Directories
 
 - name: Bulk directory ownership
-  command: find {{ config_dir }} -type d  -exec chown -c {{ wp_user }}:{{ wp_group }} {} \;
+  command: find {{ config_dir }} -type d  -exec chown -c 33:33 {} \;
 
 - name: Bulk directory permissions
   command: find  {{ config_dir }} -type d  -exec chmod -c {{ mode_0750 }} {} \;
 
 # Files 
 - name: Bulk file ownership
-  command: find  {{ config_dir }} -type f \( -iname "*.*" ! -iname  "*htaccess" ! -iname "wp-config*"  \)  -exec chown -c {{ wp_user }}:{{ wp_group }} {} \;
+  command: find  {{ config_dir }} -type f \( -iname "*.*" ! -iname  "*htaccess" ! -iname "wp-config*"  \)  -exec chown -c 33:33 {} \;
 
 - name: Dot file ownership
   command: find {{ wordpress_homedir }} -type f -maxdepth 1 \( -iname "\.*" ! -iname  "*htaccess" ! -iname "wp-config*"  \) -exec chown -c {{ config_user }}:{{ config_group }} {} \;