diff --git a/wavesrv/pkg/cmdrunner/cmdrunner.go b/wavesrv/pkg/cmdrunner/cmdrunner.go
index 4a2cac5dc..9b84e4964 100644
--- a/wavesrv/pkg/cmdrunner/cmdrunner.go
+++ b/wavesrv/pkg/cmdrunner/cmdrunner.go
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ var SetVarScopes = []SetVarScope{
 	{ScopeName: "remote", VarNames: []string{}},
 }
 
-var userHostRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^(sudo@)?([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._@\\-]*@)?([a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*)(?::([0-9]+))?$`)
+var userHostRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^(sudo@)?([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._@:\\-]*@)?([a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*)(?::([0-9]+))?$`)
 var remoteAliasRe = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._-]*$")
 var genericNameRe = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_ .()<>,/\"'\\[\\]{}=+$@!*-]*$")
 var rendererRe = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_.:-]*$")