diff --git a/bin/cdist-bin-transfer b/bin/cdist-bin-transfer
index d7a1dbe3..51cc5079 100755
--- a/bin/cdist-bin-transfer
+++ b/bin/cdist-bin-transfer
@@ -41,4 +41,11 @@ ssh "${__cdist_remote_user}@${__cdist_target_host}" \
 
 # Transfer cdist-* to the remote host
 scp -qr "${__cdist_src_base}"* \
-       "root@${__cdist_target_host}:${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}"
+       "${__cdist_remote_user}@${__cdist_target_host}:${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}"
+
+# Adjust cdist-config to contain static version string
+tmp_version="$__cdist_version"
+sed "s/^\(__cdist_version=\).*/\1\"$tmp_version\"/" "$(which cdist-config)" | \
+   ssh -q "${__cdist_remote_user}@${__cdist_target_host}"                     \
+      "cat > \"${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}\"/cdist-config"
+