diff --git a/examples/hosts b/examples/hosts
index ba08107b9..f96725f58 100644
--- a/examples/hosts
+++ b/examples/hosts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #
 # To connect using a non-root user (and elevate to root with sudo later),
 # replace `ansible_ssh_user=root` with something like this: `ansible_ssh_user=username become=true become_user=root`
+# If sudo requires a password, be sure to use the -K flag when calling Ansible to provide the password.
 #
 # For improved Ansible performance, SSH pipelining is enabled by default in `ansible.cfg`.
 # If this causes SSH connection troubles, disable it by adding `ansible_ssh_pipelining=False`