diff --git a/php/Dockerfile.Flavours b/php/Dockerfile.Flavours
index 1b2f434..cf0e745 100644
--- a/php/Dockerfile.Flavours
+++ b/php/Dockerfile.Flavours
@@ -108,9 +108,6 @@ RUN apt-get -qq update && \
     dos2unix -q /etc/service/*/run && \
     # Make sure all our new services are executable
     chmod +x /etc/service/*/run && \
-    # Insert shim for php-cli still running in this nginx container to run as www-data.
-    mv /conf/php-cli-user-shim.sh /usr/local/sbin/php-uid && \
-    chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/php-uid && \
     # Cleanup the /conf dir
     rm -R /conf && \
     # Write the PHP version into some template locations
diff --git a/php/nginx/php-cli-user-shim.sh b/php/nginx/php-cli-user-shim.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a9fc16..0000000
--- a/php/nginx/php-cli-user-shim.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php "$*"
-return $?