diff --git a/source/reference/user-privileges.txt b/source/reference/user-privileges.txt
index 593537389eb..a123098b152 100644
--- a/source/reference/user-privileges.txt
+++ b/source/reference/user-privileges.txt
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ roles. Consider the following:
    the :data:`config` database.
 
 :dbcommand:`applyOps`, :dbcommand:`eval` [#eval-shell-helper]_
-   Requires :authrole:`readAnyDatabase`, :authrole:`readWriteAnyDatabase`,
+   Requires :authrole:`readWriteAnyDatabase`,
    :authrole:`userAdminAnyDatabase`, :authrole:`dbAdminAnyDatabase` and
    :authrole:`clusterAdmin` (on the ``admin`` database.)