diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4e0ce308e..441deef90 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ 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-server
-  - mysql -e 'CREATE USER 'some_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zammad_prod.* TO 'some_user'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;'
+  - mysql -e 'CREATE USER `some_user`@`localhost` IDENTIFIED BY `some_pass`; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zammad_prod.* TO `some_user`@`localhost`; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;'
   - export RAILS_ENV=production
   - cp config/database.yml.dist config/database.yml