diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient b/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
index c7c9156f..7eade1e2 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ def msg_align(len):
 
 cryptname = ctypes.util.find_library('crypt')
 if not cryptname:
-    if os.path.exists('/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.1'):
+    if os.path.exists('/lib64/libcrypt.so.1'):
         cryptname = 'libcrypt.so.1'
-    elif os.path.exists('/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.2'):
+    elif os.path.exists('/lib64/libcrypt.so.2'):
         cryptname = 'libcrypt.so.2'
 c_libcrypt = ctypes.CDLL(cryptname)
 c_crypt = c_libcrypt.crypt