diff --git a/scripts/set-user-credentials.js b/scripts/set-user-credentials.js
index 91b6521c0..16a417e01 100644
--- a/scripts/set-user-credentials.js
+++ b/scripts/set-user-credentials.js
@@ -1,68 +1,76 @@
 /* eslint-disable flowtype/require-valid-file-annotation */
 
 const basePath = process.argv[2];
 
 const fs = require('fs');
 const readline = require('readline');
 const Writable = require('stream').Writable;
 
 let silenceOutput = false;
 
 const outStream = new Writable({
   write: function (chunk, encoding, callback) {
     if (!silenceOutput) {
       process.stdout.write(chunk, encoding);
     }
     callback();
   },
 });
 
 const rl = readline.createInterface({
   input: process.stdin,
   output: outStream,
   terminal: true,
 });
 
 const data = {};
 
+console.log(
+  'Your new authoritative keyserver needs to have an owner that is ' +
+    'not an owner of any other keyserver registered with ' +
+    "the staging Identity service. If the user doesn't exist on the staging " +
+    'Identity service, they will be registered. ' +
+    'Please provide credentials below.',
+);
+
 rl.question('username: ', value1 => {
   data.username = value1;
 
   rl.question('password: ', value2 => {
     silenceOutput = false;
     rl.output.write('\n');
 
     data.password = value2;
     writeFiles(data);
 
     // Close the readline interface
     rl.close();
   });
 
   silenceOutput = true;
 });
 
 function writeFiles(credentials) {
   try {
     const userCredentials = {
       username: credentials.username,
       password: credentials.password,
       usingIdentityCredentials: true,
     };
     const userCredentialsJSON = JSON.stringify(userCredentials, null, 2);
     const keyserverSecrets = `${basePath}/keyserver/secrets`;
     if (!fs.existsSync(keyserverSecrets)) {
       fs.mkdirSync(keyserverSecrets);
     }
     fs.writeFileSync(
       `${keyserverSecrets}/user_credentials.json`,
       userCredentialsJSON,
     );
   } catch (e) {
     console.error(
       'Failure creating configuration files: ' +
         'admin data could not be correctly written',
     );
     throw e;
   }
 }