diff --git a/docs/content/middlewares/basicauth.md b/docs/content/middlewares/basicauth.md
index 9454e345d..be9691357 100644
--- a/docs/content/middlewares/basicauth.md
+++ b/docs/content/middlewares/basicauth.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The BasicAuth middleware restricts access to your services to known users.
 #
 # Note: when used in docker-compose.yml all dollar signs in the hash need to be doubled for escaping.
 # To create user:password pair, it's possible to use this command:
-# echo $(htpasswd -nb user password) | sed -e s/\\$/\\$\\$/g
+# echo $(htpasswd -nB user) | sed -e s/\\$/\\$\\$/g
 #
 # Also note that dollar signs should NOT be doubled when they not evaluated (e.g. Ansible docker_container module).
 labels: