diff --git a/src/caosdb/utils/caosdb_admin.py b/src/caosdb/utils/caosdb_admin.py
index 9fb94f57683036f5432a40198cc4ae98893665fb..09a8f64a3c6b9f0825089949840a8791604d1ded 100755
--- a/src/caosdb/utils/caosdb_admin.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/utils/caosdb_admin.py
@@ -621,8 +621,8 @@ USAGE
 
     for action in ["grant", "deny", "revoke_denial", "revoke_grant"]:
         action_entity_permissions_parser = subparsers.add_parser(
-            "{}_entity_permissions".format(action),
-            help="{} entity permissions to a role.".format(action))
+            f"{action}_entity_permissions",
+            help=f"{action} entity permissions to one or more Entities.")
         action_entity_permissions_parser.set_defaults(
             call=do_action_entity_permissions, action=action)
         action_entity_permissions_parser.add_argument(dest="query", metavar="QUERY",