diff --git a/tests/integration-tests/tests/pyxis/test_pyxis/test_pyxis/compute_node_start.sh b/tests/integration-tests/tests/pyxis/test_pyxis/test_pyxis/compute_node_start.sh
index f03a12d65f..f5636fc5e8 100644
--- a/tests/integration-tests/tests/pyxis/test_pyxis/test_pyxis/compute_node_start.sh
+++ b/tests/integration-tests/tests/pyxis/test_pyxis/test_pyxis/compute_node_start.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@ echo "Executing $0"
 # Configure Enroot
 ENROOT_PERSISTENT_DIR="/var/enroot"
 ENROOT_VOLATILE_DIR="/run/enroot"
+ENROOT_CONF_DIR="/etc/enroot"
 
 sudo mkdir -p $ENROOT_PERSISTENT_DIR
 sudo chmod 1777 $ENROOT_PERSISTENT_DIR
 sudo mkdir -p $ENROOT_VOLATILE_DIR
 sudo chmod 1777 $ENROOT_VOLATILE_DIR
+sudo mkdir -p $ENROOT_CONF_DIR
+sudo chmod 1777 $ENROOT_CONF_DIR
 sudo mv /opt/parallelcluster/examples/enroot/enroot.conf /etc/enroot/enroot.conf
 sudo chmod 0644 /etc/enroot/enroot.conf