diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config-no-mongodb.yml b/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config-no-mongodb.yml
index 9ccc8649fd..a1b7e26401 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config-no-mongodb.yml
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config-no-mongodb.yml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ fileRealmAuthenticator:
       password: null
       roles: [admin]
 
-# mongoRealAuthenticator authenticates users defined in a MongoDB collection.
+# mongoRealmAuthenticator authenticates users defined in a MongoDB collection.
 # see https://restheart.org/docs/security/authentication#mongo-realm-authenticator
 mongoRealmAuthenticator:
   enabled: false
diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config.yml b/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config.yml
index 362d8faaf1..71b5cabbf6 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config.yml
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/restheart-default-config.yml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ fileRealmAuthenticator:
       password: null
       roles: [admin]
 
-# mongoRealAuthenticator authenticates users defined in a MongoDB collection.
+# mongoRealmAuthenticator authenticates users defined in a MongoDB collection.
 # see https://restheart.org/docs/security/authentication#mongo-realm-authenticator
 mongoRealmAuthenticator:
   enabled: true
diff --git a/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/UserVerifier.java b/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/UserVerifier.java
index 2cb62d58bb..31779eae26 100644
--- a/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/UserVerifier.java
+++ b/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/UserVerifier.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
  *
  * It assumes that the user collection is 'restheart.users', the roles property
  * is 'roles' and the id of the user is "_id" (the default configuration values
- * of mongoRealAuthenticator)
+ * of mongoRealmAuthenticator)
  *
  * @author Andrea Di Cesare <andrea@softinstigate.com>
  */
diff --git a/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/VerificationCodeGenerator.java b/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/VerificationCodeGenerator.java
index 0a95648e61..8181021052 100644
--- a/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/VerificationCodeGenerator.java
+++ b/examples/user-signup/src/main/java/org/restheart/signup/VerificationCodeGenerator.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
  * it also forbids the client to update an existing document
  *
  * it assumes that the user collection is 'users' and the roles property is
- * 'roles' (the default configuration values of mongoRealAuthenticator)
+ * 'roles' (the default configuration values of mongoRealmAuthenticator)
  *
  * @author Andrea Di Cesare <andrea@softinstigate.com>
  */