diff --git a/services/antivirus/pkg/config/config.go b/services/antivirus/pkg/config/config.go
index be17c57a5..e884ad70a 100644
--- a/services/antivirus/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/services/antivirus/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ type Config struct {
 
 	Context context.Context `yaml:"-" json:"-"`
 
-	DebugScanOutcome string `yaml:"-" env:"ANTIVIRUS_DEBUG_SCAN_OUTCOME" desc:"A predefined outcome for virus scanning, FOR DEBUG PURPOSES ONLY! (example values: \"found,infected\")"`
+	DebugScanOutcome string `yaml:"-" env:"ANTIVIRUS_DEBUG_SCAN_OUTCOME" desc:"A predefined outcome for virus scanning, FOR DEBUG PURPOSES ONLY! (example values: 'found,infected')"`
 }
 
 // Service defines the available service configuration.
diff --git a/services/app-provider/pkg/config/config.go b/services/app-provider/pkg/config/config.go
index 8b70bd478..0aa3ba3b1 100644
--- a/services/app-provider/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/services/app-provider/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	Reva         *shared.Reva  `yaml:"reva"`
 
 	ExternalAddr string  `yaml:"external_addr" env:"APP_PROVIDER_EXTERNAL_ADDR" desc:"Address of the app provider, where the GATEWAY service can reach it."`
-	Driver       string  `yaml:"driver" env:"APP_PROVIDER_DRIVER" desc:"Driver, the APP PROVIDER services uses. Only \"wopi\" is supported as of now."`
+	Driver       string  `yaml:"driver" env:"APP_PROVIDER_DRIVER" desc:"Driver, the APP PROVIDER services uses. Only 'wopi' is supported as of now."`
 	Drivers      Drivers `yaml:"drivers"`
 
 	Supervised bool            `yaml:"-"`
diff --git a/services/auth-basic/pkg/config/tracing.go b/services/auth-basic/pkg/config/tracing.go
index 3e5b081bc..7e85e763a 100644
--- a/services/auth-basic/pkg/config/tracing.go
+++ b/services/auth-basic/pkg/config/tracing.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import "github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/tracing"
 // Tracing defines the tracing configuration.
 type Tracing struct {
 	Enabled   bool   `yaml:"enabled" env:"OCIS_TRACING_ENABLED;AUTH_BASIC_TRACING_ENABLED" desc:"Activates tracing."`
-	Type      string `yaml:"type" env:"OCIS_TRACING_TYPE;AUTH_BASIC_TRACING_TYPE" desc:"The type of tracing. Defaults to \"\", which is the same as \"jaeger\". Allowed tracing types are \"jaeger\" and \"\" as of now."`
+	Type      string `yaml:"type" env:"OCIS_TRACING_TYPE;AUTH_BASIC_TRACING_TYPE" desc:"The type of tracing. Defaults to '', which is the same as 'jaeger'. Allowed tracing types are 'jaeger' and '' as of now."`
 	Endpoint  string `yaml:"endpoint" env:"OCIS_TRACING_ENDPOINT;AUTH_BASIC_TRACING_ENDPOINT" desc:"The endpoint of the tracing agent."`
 	Collector string `yaml:"collector" env:"OCIS_TRACING_COLLECTOR;AUTH_BASIC_TRACING_COLLECTOR" desc:"The HTTP endpoint for sending spans directly to a collector, i.e. http://jaeger-collector:14268/api/traces. Only used if the tracing endpoint is unset."`
 }
diff --git a/services/idm/pkg/config/config.go b/services/idm/pkg/config/config.go
index 011f213c5..30f8c460f 100644
--- a/services/idm/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/services/idm/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ type Settings struct {
 }
 
 type ServiceUserPasswords struct {
-	OcisAdmin string `yaml:"admin_password" env:"IDM_ADMIN_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the oCIS \"admin\" user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
-	Idm       string `yaml:"idm_password" env:"IDM_SVC_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the \"idm\" service user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
-	Reva      string `yaml:"reva_password" env:"IDM_REVASVC_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the \"reva\" service user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
-	Idp       string `yaml:"idp_password" env:"IDM_IDPSVC_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the \"idp\" service user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
+	OcisAdmin string `yaml:"admin_password" env:"IDM_ADMIN_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the oCIS 'admin' user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
+	Idm       string `yaml:"idm_password" env:"IDM_SVC_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the 'idm' service user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
+	Reva      string `yaml:"reva_password" env:"IDM_REVASVC_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the 'reva' service user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
+	Idp       string `yaml:"idp_password" env:"IDM_IDPSVC_PASSWORD" desc:"Password to set for the 'idp' service user. Either cleartext or an argon2id hash."`
 }
diff --git a/services/idp/pkg/config/config.go b/services/idp/pkg/config/config.go
index ac6fb0643..345d5f160 100644
--- a/services/idp/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/services/idp/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ type Settings struct {
 
 	IdentityManager string `yaml:"identity_manager" env:"IDP_IDENTITY_MANAGER" desc:"The identity manager implementation to use. Supported identity managers are 'ldap', 'cs3', 'libregraph' and 'guest'."`
 
-	URIBasePath string `yaml:"uri_base_path" env:"IDP_URI_BASE_PATH" desc:"IDP uri base path (defaults to \"\")."`
+	URIBasePath string `yaml:"uri_base_path" env:"IDP_URI_BASE_PATH" desc:"IDP uri base path (defaults to '')."`
 
 	SignInURI    string `yaml:"sign_in_uri" env:"IDP_SIGN_IN_URI" desc:"IDP sign-in url."`
 	SignedOutURI string `yaml:"signed_out_uri" env:"IDP_SIGN_OUT_URI" desc:"IDP sign-out url."`