diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d9dfc39..b93b209 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MANDIR=/usr/share/man
 SBINDIR=/usr/sbin
-ETCDIR=/etc
+ETCDIR=/etc/make-ca
 LIBEXECDIR=/usr/libexec/make-ca
 
 all: make_ca man
diff --git a/README b/README
index 0db89a1..7c0555b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ and certificate stores making it a full trust management utiltiy.
 The make-ca script depends on OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, P11-Kit >= 0.23.19, and
 optionally NSS >= 3.23 and Java >= 1.7. Additionally, Coreutils, gawk, and
 sed are used. The default locations for output files can be tailored for
-your environment via the /etc/make-ca.conf configuration file.
+your environment via the /etc/make-ca.conf configuration file (copy
+/etc/make-ca/make-ca.conf.dist).
 
 A p11-kit helper, copy-trust-modifications, is included for use in p11-kit's
 trust-extract-compat script (which should be symlinked to the user's path as