diff --git a/build/centos8/lemonldap-ng/ansible/deploy.yaml b/build/centos8/lemonldap-ng/ansible/deploy.yaml
index 312cb3208437ef46f02d1dac4618911e126555a9..b7bb8a815a94d196b137a77eedb0061c02e37d40 100644
--- a/build/centos8/lemonldap-ng/ansible/deploy.yaml
+++ b/build/centos8/lemonldap-ng/ansible/deploy.yaml
@@ -62,6 +62,20 @@
         dest: /etc/lemonldap-ng/lemonldap-ng.ini
         mode: '0644'
 
+  - name: Fix permissions of /var/cache/lemonldap-ng
+    file:
+      dest: /var/cache/lemonldap-ng
+      owner: apache
+      group: apache
+      recurse: yes
+
+  - name: Fix permissions of /run/llng-fastcgi-server
+    file:
+      dest: /run/llng-fastcgi-server
+      owner: apache
+      group: apache
+      recurse: yes
+
   - name: Nginx vhosts
     template:
         src: "templates/{{ item }}-nginx.conf.j2"
diff --git a/build/centos8/run.sh b/build/centos8/run.sh
index d9d63ec65222a4c7cd395eed5d4b61d1675b1877..8caa6e5eb8d5551c6f1450fe62208f4cd2fdc76f 100644
--- a/build/centos8/run.sh
+++ b/build/centos8/run.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
 sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
 yum update -y
 yum install yum-utils -y
-yum-config-manager --enable AppStream
+yum-config-manager --enable appstream
+# missing dependency "sshpass", which is present in centos-stream, so switching to centos-stream
+dnf install centos-release-stream -y
+dnf swap centos-{linux,stream}-repos -y
+dnf distro-sync -y
 yum install epel-release -y
 yum install ansible glibc-common policycoreutils -y 
 useradd fusioniam