diff --git a/roles/jupyterhub/templates/patch_await.sh b/roles/jupyterhub/templates/patch_await.sh
index bf4346413..50b292535 100755
--- a/roles/jupyterhub/templates/patch_await.sh
+++ b/roles/jupyterhub/templates/patch_await.sh
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
 else
    echo Await patch already applied. Skipping. . .
 fi
-cat $SITE_PACKAGES/firstuseauthenticator/firstuseauthenticator.py |grep data['data'].lower()'
+cat $SITE_PACKAGES/firstuseauthenticator/firstuseauthenticator.py |grep "data\['username'\].lower\(\)"
 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
-	echo Updating to data['username'].lower()
-	sed -i -e's/data['username']/data['username'].lower()/' $SITE_PACKAGES/firstuseauthenticator/firstuseauthenticator.py
+	echo Updating to data['username'].lower\(\)
+	sed -i -e"s/data\['username'\]/data\['username'\].lower\(\)/" $SITE_PACKAGES/firstuseauthenticator/firstuseauthenticator.py
 else
-	echo username.lower() patch already applied. Skipping. . .
+	echo username.lower\(\) patch already applied. Skipping. . .
 fi