diff --git a/nxc/cli.py b/nxc/cli.py
index 1628d362d..e340af902 100755
--- a/nxc/cli.py
+++ b/nxc/cli.py
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def gen_cli_args():
         default=[],
         help="password(s) or file(s) containing passwords",
     )
-    std_parser.add_argument("--ignore-decoding-errors", action="store_true", help="Ignore non UTF-8 characters when decoding the password file")
+    std_parser.add_argument("--ignore-pw-decoding", action="store_true", help="Ignore non UTF-8 characters when decoding the password file")
     std_parser.add_argument("-k", "--kerberos", action="store_true", help="Use Kerberos authentication")
     std_parser.add_argument("--no-bruteforce", action="store_true", help="No spray when using file for username and password (user1 => password1, user2 => password2")
     std_parser.add_argument("--continue-on-success", action="store_true", help="continues authentication attempts even after successes")
diff --git a/nxc/connection.py b/nxc/connection.py
index 02299763b..2322f8959 100755
--- a/nxc/connection.py
+++ b/nxc/connection.py
@@ -310,13 +310,13 @@ def parse_credentials(self):
         for password in self.args.password:
             if isfile(password):
                 try:
-                    with open(password, 'r', errors = ('ignore' if self.args.ignore_decoding_errors else 'strict')) as password_file:
+                    with open(password, 'r', errors = ('ignore' if self.args.ignore_pw_decoding else 'strict')) as password_file:
                         for line in password_file:
                             secret.append(line.strip())
                             cred_type.append('plaintext')
                 except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
                     self.logger.error(f"{type(e).__name__}: Could not decode password file. Make sure the file only contains UTF-8 characters.")
-                    self.logger.error("You can ignore non UTF-8 characters with the option '--ignore-decoding-errors'")
+                    self.logger.error("You can ignore non UTF-8 characters with the option '--ignore-pw-decoding'")
                     exit(1)
 
             else: