diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12ec3db..3d0cf6a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@
 
 Use `pgbot.yml` along with `tokens.yml` to set it up. Default directory for configs is `/etc/pgbot`. It needs a list of regex with tokens and a postgresql database to match them. This doc is probably going to be abandoned right away, but at least I have added this line I dunno.
 
+`API_ID`, `API_HASH`, `BOT_TOKEN` and `DB_SPEC` env vars have to be provided for the bot to work. See Telethon and psycopg docs for what these are.
+
 Dependencies: python >=3.10 and modules in `requirements.txt`
diff --git a/configs/pgbot.dist.yml b/configs/pgbot.dist.yml
index 333dfca..d3ece58 100644
--- a/configs/pgbot.dist.yml
+++ b/configs/pgbot.dist.yml
@@ -1,17 +1,3 @@
-# gibberish here, read telethon docs for further details
-api_id: 00000000
-api_hash: 000000000000000000000000000000ff
-bot_token: 0000000000:ABCDEFGHijklmnoPQRSTUVWXYZ-v1234567
-
-# refer psycopg.connect() docs for db_spec, also this:
-# https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING
-db_spec: |
-  dbname=pgbot
-  user=pgbot
-  host=127.0.0.1
-  port=5432
-  password=somepass
-
 timezone: Europe/Moscow
 
 # list of privileged users that can execute commands