From 02690e50ca1608e7b31e8d6259b76386a0a1846d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anne Henmi <41210220+ahh-docker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:20:04 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Update ce-ee-node-activate.md

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 engine/ce-ee-node-activate.md | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/engine/ce-ee-node-activate.md b/engine/ce-ee-node-activate.md
index b05f6ca8bc..c12a1e0256 100644
--- a/engine/ce-ee-node-activate.md
+++ b/engine/ce-ee-node-activate.md
@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ Server:
 
 2. Log into the Docker engine from the command line.
 
-**NOTE:** When running the command `docker login`, the shell stores the credentials in the current user's home directory. For CentOS, the `sudo` command overwrites overwrites the $HOME environment variable.
+**NOTE:** When running the command `docker login`, the shell stores the credentials in the current user's home 
+directory. RHEL and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions have different behavior for sudo. RHEL sets $HOME to point 
+to `/root` while Ubuntu leaves `$HOME` pointing to the user's home directory who ran `sudo` and this can cause 
+permission and access problems when switching between `sudo` and non-sudo'd commands.
 
 
 For Ubuntu or Debian: