diff --git a/doc/man/man8/slappasswd.8 b/doc/man/man8/slappasswd.8
index 0b465283da..d967edf0ae 100644
--- a/doc/man/man8/slappasswd.8
+++ b/doc/man/man8/slappasswd.8
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ This string needs to be in
 .BR sprintf (3)
 format and may include one (and only one) %s conversion.
 This conversion will be substituted with a string random
-characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./].  For example, "%.2s"
-provides a two character salt and "$1$%.8s" tells some
+characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./].  For example, '%.2s'
+provides a two character salt and '$1$%.8s' tells some
 versions of crypt(3) to use an MD5 algorithm and provides
-8 random characters of salt.  The default is "%s", which
+8 random characters of salt.  The default is '%s', which
 provides 31 characters of salt.
 .SH LIMITATIONS
 The practice storing hashed passwords in userPassword violates