diff --git a/plugins/system/cpubyuser b/plugins/system/cpubyuser
index 39469981..096a32c0 100755
--- a/plugins/system/cpubyuser
+++ b/plugins/system/cpubyuser
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 
 . "$MUNIN_LIBDIR/plugins/plugin.sh"
 
+OTHER_FIELD="others"
 [ "$USERS" = "ALL" ] && USERS=$(w --no-header | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq)
 
 
@@ -60,8 +61,8 @@ if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
 	echo "graph_scale no"
 	echo "graph_period second"
 	user_fields="$(for user in $USERS; do clean_fieldname "$user" | tr '\n' ' '; done)"
-	echo "graph_order $user_fields others"
-	for user in $USERS "others"; do
+	echo "graph_order $user_fields $OTHER_FIELD"
+	for user in $USERS "$OTHER_FIELD"; do
 	        user_field="$(clean_fieldname "$user")"
 		echo "${user_field}.label $user"
 		echo "${user_field}.info CPU used by user $user"