diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml
index 87a6c446a2..bed96cd885 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ is a special account called <literal>nix</literal>, but it can be
 named anything.  It should own the Nix store and database:
 
 <screen>
-$ chown -R root /nix/store /nix/var/nix</screen>
+$ chown -R nix /nix/store /nix/var/nix</screen>
 
 and of course <command>nix-worker --daemon</command> should be started
 under that user, e.g.,