From 24a8494837007e60ee83ea83d702a229dfa8c0e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rsc Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:27:51 +0000 Subject: document new name --- man/man1/ssh-agent.1 | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 . -- cgit v1.2.3