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authorrsc <devnull@localhost>2005-03-21 17:27:51 +0000
committerrsc <devnull@localhost>2005-03-21 17:27:51 +0000
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-rw-r--r--man/man1/ssh-agent.111
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diff --git a/man/man1/ssh-agent.1 b/man/man1/ssh-agent.1
index dd5b707a..1617e17f 100644
--- a/man/man1/ssh-agent.1
+++ b/man/man1/ssh-agent.1
@@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ to authenticate to remote systems using RSA or DSA keys.
.I Ssh
accesses
.I ssh-agent
-via a Unix socket posted in a private subdirectory of
-.B /tmp .
+via a Unix socket named
+.B ssh-agent.socket
+in the name space directory
+(see
+.IR intro (4)).
+Note that although the socket is posted in the name space
+directory, it is not for 9P conversations.
.I Ssh
-expects this socket to be in the environment as
+expects the name of this socket to be in the environment as
.BR $SSH_AGENT_SOCK ,
and expects the agent to be running with process id
.BR $SSH_AGENT_PID .