diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
index f7349ea5d1..fafd2725cb 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 
 - name: change owner for results dir if it isn't copr
   shell: "chown -R copr:copr /var/lib/copr/public_html"
-  when: copr_results_dir_st.stat.pw_name != "copr"
+  when: "copr" not in copr_results_dir_st.stat.pw_name
 
 - command: "ls -dZ /var/lib/copr/public_html/"
   register: public_html_ls