diff --git a/packaging/wrappers/grafana-cli b/packaging/wrappers/grafana-cli

index 9cad151c0d..a786edc596 100755

--- a/packaging/wrappers/grafana-cli

+++ b/packaging/wrappers/grafana-cli

@@ -5,18 +5,19 @@

 # the system-wide Grafana configuration that was bundled with the package as we

 # use the binary.

-DEFAULT=/etc/default/grafana

+DEFAULT=/etc/sysconfig/grafana-server

 GRAFANA_HOME=/usr/share/grafana

 CONF_DIR=/etc/grafana

 DATA_DIR=/var/lib/grafana

 PLUGINS_DIR=/var/lib/grafana/plugins

 LOG_DIR=/var/log/grafana

+LIBEXEC_DIR=/usr/libexec/grafana

 CONF_FILE=$CONF_DIR/grafana.ini

 PROVISIONING_CFG_DIR=$CONF_DIR/provisioning

-EXECUTABLE=$GRAFANA_HOME/bin/grafana-cli

+EXECUTABLE=$LIBEXEC_DIR/grafana-cli

 if [ ! -x $EXECUTABLE ]; then

  echo "Program not installed or not executable"

@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ if [ ! -x $EXECUTABLE ]; then

 fi

 # overwrite settings from default file

+#shellcheck disable=SC1090

 if [ -f "$DEFAULT" ]; then

   . "$DEFAULT"

 fi

@@ -36,4 +38,11 @@ OPTS="--homepath=${GRAFANA_HOME} \

                         cfg:default.paths.logs=${LOG_DIR} \

                         cfg:default.paths.plugins=${PLUGINS_DIR}'"

-eval $EXECUTABLE "$OPTS" "$@"

+if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then

+  exec runuser -u "${GRAFANA_USER}" -- "$EXECUTABLE" "$OPTS" "$@"

+elif [ "$(id -u -n)" = "${GRAFANA_USER}" ]; then

+  exec "$EXECUTABLE" "$OPTS" "$@"

+else

+  echo "Please run this script as user \"${GRAFANA_USER}\" or root."

+  exit 5

+fi