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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.17
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1
index fe0190859ef..6348197b332 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-add.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.39 2003/06/10 09:12:11 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.40 2003/11/25 23:10:08 matthieu Exp $
.\"
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\"
@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@ The passphrase is read from the user's tty.
.Nm
retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.
.Pp
-The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of
-the current process for
+The authentication agent must be running and the
+.Ev SSH_AUTH_SOCK
+environment variable must contain the name of its socket for
.Nm
to work.
.Pp