diff --git a/chkcrontab b/chkcrontab
index 77aa14f975e33b85e2fd7aff13bd7e8f656c6cc4..b521247bd86e076d1b29b7754050c1952b0249da 100755
--- a/chkcrontab
+++ b/chkcrontab
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def main(argv):
   (options, args) = parse_chkcrontab_options(argv)
   for crontab in args[1:]:
     print('Checking correctness of %s' % crontab)
-    return check.check_crontab(crontab, log, options['whitelisted_users'])
+    return check.check_crontab(crontab, log, options.whitelisted_users)
 
 def parse_chkcrontab_options(argv):
   """Parse the options for chkcrontab.