diff --git a/ovn/templates/daemonset-controller.yaml b/ovn/templates/daemonset-controller.yaml
index 7612ee924..619b64892 100644
--- a/ovn/templates/daemonset-controller.yaml
+++ b/ovn/templates/daemonset-controller.yaml
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ spec:
             - ovn-controller
 {{ dict "envAll" . "component" "ovn_controller" "container" "controller" "type" "readiness" "probeTemplate" (include "controllerReadinessProbeTemplate" . | fromYaml) | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_probe" | indent 10 }}
           env:
+            - name: OVS_USER_ID
+              value: {{ .Values.conf.ovs_user_name }}
             - name: OVN_DAEMONSET_VERSION
               value: "3"
             - name: OVN_LOGLEVEL_CONTROLLER
diff --git a/ovn/values.yaml b/ovn/values.yaml
index ca60650fb..550b36046 100644
--- a/ovn/values.yaml
+++ b/ovn/values.yaml
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ conf:
   #   br-private: eth0
   #   br-public: eth1
   auto_bridge_add: {}
+  ovs_user_name: openvswitch
 
 pod:
   # NOTE: should be same as nova.pod.use_fqdn.compute