diff --git a/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile b/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile
index 0139e40..83337a3 100755
--- a/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile
+++ b/Repositories/otago_eprints/Makefile
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 deploy: $(GENERATED_FILES)
 	@announce "Copying files..."
-	@sudo -u $(EPRINTS_USER) rsync --verbose --cvs-exclude --exclude=Makefile \
+	@$(SUDO) rsync --verbose --cvs-exclude --exclude=Makefile \
 		--exclude='*.make' --exclude='*_src.*' \
 		--recursive --times . $(EPRINTS_ROOT)/archives > .del-rsync-output
 	@-grep $(ARCHIVE_NAME) .del-rsync-output
@@ -72,17 +72,17 @@
 
 generate_apacheconf:
 	@announce "generate_apacheconf"
-	@sudo -u $(EPRINTS_USER) $(BINDIR)/$@
+	$(SUDO) $(BINDIR)/$@
 
 
 import_subjects:
 	@announce "$@ $(ARCHIVE_NAME)"
-	@sudo -u $(EPRINTS_USER) $(BINDIR)/$@ $(ARCHIVE_NAME) --xml $(ARCHIVE_NAME)/cfg/subjects.xml
+	@$(SUDO) $(BINDIR)/$@ $(ARCHIVE_NAME) --xml $(ARCHIVE_NAME)/cfg/subjects.xml
 
 
 generate_static generate_abstracts generate_views:
 	@announce "$@ $(ARCHIVE_NAME)"
-	@sudo -u $(EPRINTS_USER) $(BINDIR)/$@ $(ARCHIVE_NAME)
+	@$(SUDO) $(BINDIR)/$@ $(ARCHIVE_NAME)
 
 
 restart_apache:
@@ -96,13 +96,13 @@
 
 index:
 	@announce "Rebuilding indexes..."
-	@sudo -u $(EPRINTS_USER) $(BINDIR)/indexer start --once --notdaemon
+	@$(SUDO) $(BINDIR)/indexer start --once --notdaemon
 
 
 stats:
 	@announce "Generating statistics..."
 	@php $(EPRINTS_ROOT)/ePrintsStats/scripts/eprints-usage.php
-#	@sudo -u $(EPRINTS_USER) perl $(EPRINTS_ROOT)/ePrintsStats/scripts/add_country.pl
+#	@$(SUDO) perl $(EPRINTS_ROOT)/ePrintsStats/scripts/add_country.pl
 
 
 debug: