diff --git a/docker/README.rst b/docker/README.rst
index 81f1c17e67b22fecdd7df34f00f1724d21fbb8b7..3bd25884aa85561a2b185a7ea8f4294ac88a68a9 100644
--- a/docker/README.rst
+++ b/docker/README.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ OST Docker
 
 .. note::
 
-  In order to run docker commands there might be a need to run them as root (sudo).
+  For many docker installations it is required to run docker commands as root. As
+  this depends on set up, we skip the `sudo` in all commands.
 
 Build Docker image
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