diff --git a/docs/content/install.sh b/docs/content/install.sh
index 58c56ee9b..e4488354f 100755
--- a/docs/content/install.sh
+++ b/docs/content/install.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ if [ -z "${unzip_tool}" ]; then
     exit 4
 fi
 
+# Make sure we don't create a root owned .config/rclone directory #2127
+export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=config
+
 #check installed version of rclone to determine if update is necessary
 version=`rclone --version 2>>errors | head -n 1`
 if [ -z "${install_beta}" ]; then