diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 356f554328b..e8d1c7347d9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ have been removed. Use `morph.endpoints` for both instead.
 Deprecated `neofs_node_object_epoch` metric for IR and SN (the same for both)
 has been removed. Use `neofs_node_state_epoch` for SN and `neofs_ir_state_epoch`
 for IR instead.
+Deprecated `--no-precheck` flag in `neofs-cli container set-eacl` use `--force` flag instead for skipping validation checks.
 
 Subnets support has been removed:
 - IR's `workers.subnet` and `contracts.subnet` configs are not used anymore.
diff --git a/cmd/neofs-cli/modules/container/set_eacl.go b/cmd/neofs-cli/modules/container/set_eacl.go
index 8aa5b42b54e..d373b4a8ce6 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-cli/modules/container/set_eacl.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-cli/modules/container/set_eacl.go
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ Container ID in EACL table will be substituted with ID from the CLI.`,
 
 		pk := key.GetOrGenerate(cmd)
 		cli := internalclient.GetSDKClientByFlag(ctx, cmd, commonflags.RPC)
-
-		if !flagVarsSetEACL.noPreCheck {
+		force, _ := cmd.Flags().GetBool(commonflags.ForceFlag)
+		if !(force || flagVarsSetEACL.noPreCheck) {
 			cmd.Println("Checking the ability to modify access rights in the container...")
 			common.PrintVerbose(cmd, "Reading the container to check ownership...")
 
@@ -144,5 +144,7 @@ func initContainerSetEACLCmd() {
 	flags.StringVar(&flagVarsSetEACL.srcPath, "table", "", "path to file with JSON or binary encoded EACL table")
 	flags.BoolVar(&containerAwait, "await", false, fmt.Sprintf("block execution until EACL is persisted. "+
 		"Increases default execution timeout to %.0fs", awaitTimeout.Seconds())) // simple %s notation prints 1m0s https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39064
+	flags.BoolP(commonflags.ForceFlag, commonflags.ForceFlagShorthand, false, "skip validation checks (ownership, extensibility of the container ACL)")
 	flags.BoolVar(&flagVarsSetEACL.noPreCheck, "no-precheck", false, "do not pre-check the extensibility of the container ACL")
+	_ = flags.MarkDeprecated("no-precheck", "use --force flag instead for skipping validation checks")
 }