diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a92db37..bf02972 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Authenticate to Zulip using Pleroma or Mastodon.
 You will need to have a user on the zulip system that has permission to create new users and have an api key for it.
 Instructions will be added to this document at a later point.
 
-1. `useradd -r -m -d /var/lib/fedi-auth -s /bin/bash fedi-auth`
-2. clone this repo into a subdirectory in fedi-auth user's home directory
+1. `useradd -r -m -d /var/lib/zulip-fedi-auth -s /bin/bash zulip-fedi-auth`
+2. clone this repo into a subdirectory in zulip-fedi-auth user's home directory
 3. create a venv, start it and run `pip install -r requirements.txt`
 4. copy the systemd unit file into /etc/systemd/system and tailor it to your environment, and enable and start it
 5. using nginx and letsencrypt or your other preference, to reverse-proxy the command under TLS at /fedi-auth/
diff --git a/service/zulip-fediverse-auth.service b/service/zulip-fediverse-auth.service
index db8a0b2..b911aeb 100644
--- a/service/zulip-fediverse-auth.service
+++ b/service/zulip-fediverse-auth.service
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ Environment=API_KEY=your-api-key
 Environment=SECRET=your-jwt-secret
 Environment=PORT=8091
 Environment=ZULIP=your-server.tld
-Environment=DB=/var/lib/zulip-fedi/db/db.sqlite
+Environment=DB=/var/lib/zulip-fedi-auth/db/db.sqlite
 Environment=PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
-#ExecStart=/var/lib/zulip-fedi/venv/bin/python3 auth.py
-ExecStart=/var/lib/zulip-fedi/venv/bin/gunicorn --bind 127.0.0.1:8091 auth:app
-WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/zulip-fedi/zulip-fediverse-auth
-User=zulip-fedi
-Group=zulip-fedi
+#ExecStart=/var/lib/zulip-fedi-auth/venv/bin/python3 auth.py
+ExecStart=/var/lib/zulip-fedi-auth/venv/bin/gunicorn --bind 127.0.0.1:8091 auth:app
+WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/zulip-fedi-auth/zulip-fediverse-auth
+User=zulip-fedi-auth
+Group=zulip-fedi-auth
 
 PrivateDevices=true
 PrivateTmp=true
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ProtectSystem=strict
 ProtectHome=true
 NoNewPrivileges=true
 CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_ADMIN
-ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/zulip-fedi/db
+ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/zulip-fedi-auth/db
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target