diff --git a/troubleshooting.md b/troubleshooting.md
index 1dd1d29803cc..14b842adb0f9 100644
--- a/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/troubleshooting.md
@@ -1517,8 +1517,6 @@ The following steps create the user _containers_ and assigns big subuid and subg
 1. Create the user _containers_
    ```
    sudo useradd --comment "Helper user to reserve subuids and subgids for Podman" \
-		--no-create-home \
-                --home-dir / \
                 --shell /usr/sbin/nologin \
                 containers
    ```