diff --git a/doc/install/installation.md b/doc/install/installation.md
index addb21b50e0..5ea2329dead 100644
--- a/doc/install/installation.md
+++ b/doc/install/installation.md
@@ -197,20 +197,17 @@ You can change `6-6-stable` to `master` if you want the *bleeding edge* version,
     # Make sure GitLab can write to the log/ and tmp/ directories
     sudo chown -R git log/
     sudo chown -R git tmp/
-    sudo chmod -R u+rwX  log/
-    sudo chmod -R u+rwX  tmp/
+    sudo chmod -R u+rwX log/
+    sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/
 
     # Create directory for satellites
     sudo -u git -H mkdir /home/git/gitlab-satellites
 
-    # Create directories for sockets/pids and make sure GitLab can write to them
-    sudo -u git -H mkdir tmp/pids/
-    sudo -u git -H mkdir tmp/sockets/
-    sudo chmod -R u+rwX  tmp/pids/
-    sudo chmod -R u+rwX  tmp/sockets/
+    # Make sure GitLab can write to the tmp/pids/ and tmp/sockets/ directories
+    sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/pids/
+    sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/sockets/
 
-    # Create public/uploads directory otherwise backup will fail
-    sudo -u git -H mkdir public/uploads
+    # Make sure GitLab can write to the public/uploads/ directory
     sudo chmod -R u+rwX  public/uploads
 
     # Copy the example Unicorn config