diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f8e1b1c9e..4a89fcf2f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ rvm:
 before_install:
   - sudo apt-get -qq update
   - sudo apt-get install -y curl git-core patch build-essential bison zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxml2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev autotools-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-0-2 autoconf automake libreadline6-dev libyaml-dev libtool libgmp-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libffi-dev libmysqlclient-dev
-  - mysql -e "CREATE USER 'some_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';" -uroot
-  - mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'some_user'@'localhost';" -uroot
+  - mysql -u root -e "CREATE USER 'some_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';"
+  - mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'some_user'@'localhost';"
   - export RAILS_ENV=production
   - cp config/database.yml.dist config/database.yml
 install: