diff --git a/archivebox/tests/test_setup_script.py b/archivebox/tests/test_setup_script.py
index f6f9f3a2..43b95f0f 100644
--- a/archivebox/tests/test_setup_script.py
+++ b/archivebox/tests/test_setup_script.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ def test_setup_script_gives_archivebox_user_ownership_of_runtime_parent_dirs():
     assert 'chown "$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_UID:$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_GID" "$path"' in script
     assert '"$HOME/.config/uv"' in script
     assert 'runuser -u "$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_USER"' in script
+    assert '(cd "$HOME" && runuser' in script
     assert 'run_as_archivebox_user "$BOOTSTRAP_UV_BINARY" tool run' in script
     assert 'run_as_archivebox_user "$UV_BINARY" --no-config tool install' in script
 
diff --git a/bin/setup.sh b/bin/setup.sh
index c6032580..211b1515 100755
--- a/bin/setup.sh
+++ b/bin/setup.sh
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ run_as_archivebox_user() {
     fi
 
     if command -v runuser >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-        runuser -u "$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_USER" -- env HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" ABXPKG_LIB_DIR="$ABXPKG_LIB_DIR" "$@"
+        (cd "$HOME" && runuser -u "$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_USER" -- env HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" ABXPKG_LIB_DIR="$ABXPKG_LIB_DIR" "$@")
     else
-        sudo -u "$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_USER" env HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" ABXPKG_LIB_DIR="$ABXPKG_LIB_DIR" "$@"
+        (cd "$HOME" && sudo -u "$ARCHIVEBOX_SYSTEM_USER" env HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" ABXPKG_LIB_DIR="$ABXPKG_LIB_DIR" "$@")
     fi
 }