diff --git a/.awsbox.json b/.awsbox.json
index ea13af1bd51f50978c01009404f6cf9668ba5b2a..7ae505573f861a7601798fc1d19c563864faad99 100644
--- a/.awsbox.json
+++ b/.awsbox.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "poststart": "scripts/show_config.js"
   },
   "local_hooks": {
-    "postcreate": "scripts/awsbox/post_create.js"
+    "postcreate": "scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh"
   },
   "packages": [
     "mysql-server"
diff --git a/scripts/awsbox/create_browserid_user.sql b/scripts/awsbox/create_browserid_user.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea27c6e0b3c50b72db512a67d99eecc4970aaa0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/awsbox/create_browserid_user.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+CREATE USER 'browserid'@'localhost';
+CREATE DATABASE browserid;
+GRANT ALL ON browserid.* TO 'browserid'@'localhost';
diff --git a/scripts/awsbox/post_create.js b/scripts/awsbox/post_create.js
deleted file mode 100755
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh b/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03ced9d0c7b0f76abd12710b54de9351f734381a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+echo $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/create_browserid_user.sql
+exit 1
+
+sudo /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
+sudo /sbin/service mysqld start
+sudo mysql -u root < $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/create_browserid_user.sql