diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5
index d6e25ff1a1..eb84b712dd 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ memory on startup, and maintained in memory thereafter. Checkpoints may be
 configured to write the contextCSN into the underlying database to minimize
 recovery time after an unclean shutdown.
 
-On databases that support inequality indexing, it is mandatory to set an
+On databases that support inequality indexing, it is highly recommended to set an
 eq index on the entryCSN attribute when using this overlay.
 .SH CONFIGURATION
 These