diff --git a/files/fuel-ha-utils/ocf/mysql-wss b/files/fuel-ha-utils/ocf/mysql-wss
index ca8aef2f9b..a6c5e2fbfc 100755
--- a/files/fuel-ha-utils/ocf/mysql-wss
+++ b/files/fuel-ha-utils/ocf/mysql-wss
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ mysql_start() {
     # already existed, check whether it is writable by the configured
     # user
     for dir in $pid_dir $socket_dir; do
-        if ! su -s /bin/sh - $OCF_RESKEY_user -c "test -w $dir"; then
+        if ! /usr/bin/sudo -n -u $OCF_RESKEY_user /usr/bin/test -w $dir; then
             ocf_log err "${LH} Directory $dir is not writable by $OCF_RESKEY_user"
             exit $OCF_ERR_PERM;
         fi