diff --git a/roles/soctools-server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/soctools-server/tasks/main.yml
index e25956f14e65a6572e6f5140f0f658cba44d7b26..b57505daa6d012f407ace20ce34817828dc5072b 100644
--- a/roles/soctools-server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/soctools-server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
 - name: create systemd service file for user-mgmt-ui
   template:
     src: user-mgmt-ui.service.j2
-    dest: /etc/systemd/system/user-mgmt-ui.service mode=644
+    dest: /etc/systemd/system/user-mgmt-ui.service
+    mode: '0644'
 
 - name: enable and start user-mgmt-ui service
   systemd: