diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index dfd47d5e7c4..deabfe83d14 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -3704,6 +3704,7 @@ steps:
   failure: ignore
   image: us.gcr.io/kubernetes-dev/package-publish:latest
   name: publish-linux-packages
+  privileged: true
   settings:
     access_key_id:
       from_secret: packages_access_key_id
@@ -3793,6 +3794,7 @@ steps:
   failure: ignore
   image: us.gcr.io/kubernetes-dev/package-publish:latest
   name: publish-linux-packages
+  privileged: true
   settings:
     access_key_id:
       from_secret: packages_access_key_id
@@ -5306,6 +5308,6 @@ kind: secret
 name: packages_secret_access_key
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: b27258458dde71ee5fc84b5d9659862c1deb70a41d13ad57f096b63f4777e720
+hmac: f37c416b44c082e9d07c031cb3d173dcd05ffbe812ab73ecc0b375ad8391c041
 
 ...
diff --git a/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star b/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star
index 501a2158470..8ea816136f4 100644
--- a/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star
+++ b/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star
@@ -1045,6 +1045,7 @@ def publish_linux_packages_step(edition):
         'depends_on': [
             'grabpl'
         ],
+        'privileged': True,
         'failure': 'ignore', # While we're testing it
         'settings': {
             'access_key_id': from_secret('packages_access_key_id'),