diff --git a/services/proxy/pkg/config/config.go b/services/proxy/pkg/config/config.go
index c2b2236afda..c9bce96e74d 100644
--- a/services/proxy/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/services/proxy/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	UserCS3Claim          string          `yaml:"user_cs3_claim" env:"PROXY_USER_CS3_CLAIM" desc:"The name of a CS3 user attribute (claim) that should be mapped to the 'user_oidc_claim'. Supported values are 'username', 'mail' and 'userid'."`
 	MachineAuthAPIKey     string          `mask:"password" yaml:"machine_auth_api_key" env:"OCIS_MACHINE_AUTH_API_KEY;PROXY_MACHINE_AUTH_API_KEY" desc:"Machine auth API key used to validate internal requests necessary to access resources from other services."`
 	AutoprovisionAccounts bool            `yaml:"auto_provision_accounts" env:"PROXY_AUTOPROVISION_ACCOUNTS" desc:"Set this to 'true' to automatically provision users that do not yet exist in the users service on-demand upon first sign-in. To use this a write-enabled libregraph user backend needs to be setup an running."`
-	EnableBasicAuth       bool            `yaml:"enable_basic_auth" env:"PROXY_ENABLE_BASIC_AUTH" desc:"Set this to true to enable 'basic' (username/password) authentication."`
+	EnableBasicAuth       bool            `yaml:"enable_basic_auth" env:"PROXY_ENABLE_BASIC_AUTH" desc:"Set this to true to enable 'basic authentication' (username/password)."`
 	InsecureBackends      bool            `yaml:"insecure_backends" env:"PROXY_INSECURE_BACKENDS" desc:"Disable TLS certificate validation for all HTTP backend connections."`
 	AuthMiddleware        AuthMiddleware  `yaml:"auth_middleware"`