This is a user+Discourse problem. The problem is that if you post code without enclosing in backquote characters then you can get all sorts of fancy “nicer” Unicode characters (in this case “smart quotes”), which of course won’t work in shell.
@reboot echo ‘on’ | /usr/bin/tee /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.2/power/control
v
@reboot echo 'on' | /usr/bin/tee /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.2/power/control
I didn’t check the details but maybe this: Expired root account