commit 24a8494837007e60ee83ea83d702a229dfa8c0e2 from: rsc date: Mon Mar 21 17:27:51 2005 UTC document new name commit - 7231a42da14180fb1a5541085b62bcfe8a6ff4e6 commit + 24a8494837007e60ee83ea83d702a229dfa8c0e2 blob - dd5b707a3e3863436ba28cd29b0cd027822049c1 blob + 1617e17f6de52faed983665bda356e3fdd0766d9 --- man/man1/ssh-agent.1 +++ man/man1/ssh-agent.1 @@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ to authenticate to remote systems using RSA or DSA key .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 .