Shorter, more accurate explanation of NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost

without the confusing example. Prompted by Christoph Anton Mitterer
via github and bz#2293.

diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5
index 8afa0c1..7745008 100644 (file)
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh_config.5
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.263 2018/02/06 06:01:54 dtucker Exp $
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 6 2018 $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.264 2018/02/10 06:40:28 djm Exp $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 10 2018 $
 .Dt SSH_CONFIG 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -1107,10 +1107,7 @@ hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
 The list of available MAC algorithms may also be obtained using
 .Qq ssh -Q mac .
 .It Cm NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost
-This option can be used if the home directory is shared across machines.
-In this case localhost will refer to a different machine on each of
-the machines and the user will get many warnings about changed host keys.
-However, this option disables host authentication for localhost.
+Disable host authentication for localhost (loopback addresses).
 The argument to this keyword must be
 .Cm yes
 or