diff --git a/src/ceph-daemon b/src/ceph-daemon
index 6f0199ab9b5..375849a7bec 100755
--- a/src/ceph-daemon
+++ b/src/ceph-daemon
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 DEFAULT_IMAGE='ceph/daemon-base'
 DATA_DIR='/var/lib/ceph'