tweak wording a bit. always talk about creating a new environment. also document...

[opendoas.git] / doas.conf.5

diff --git a/doas.conf.5 b/doas.conf.5
index d4fb35506a38d38d50059fd1715ddb7ab96bc70e..592b4b66e77e6004e9bcee7f464be212c13b21dc 100644 (file)
--- a/doas.conf.5
+++ b/doas.conf.5
@@ -49,22 +49,11 @@ The user is not required to enter a password.
 After the user successfully authenticates, do not ask for a password
 again for some time.
 .It Ic keepenv
-The user's environment is maintained.
-The default is to retain the variables
-.Ev DISPLAY
-and
-.Ev TERM
-from the invoking process, reset
-.Ev HOME ,
-.Ev LOGNAME ,
-.Ev PATH ,
-.Ev SHELL ,
-and
-.Ev USER
-as appropriate for the target user, and discard the rest of the environment.
+Environment variables other than those listed in
+.Xr doas 1
+are retained when creating the environment for the new process.
 .It Ic setenv { Oo Ar variable ... Oc Oo Ar variable=value ... Oc Ic }
-In addition to the variables mentioned above, keep the space-separated
-specified variables.
+Keep or set the space-separated specified variables.
 Variables may also be removed with a leading
 .Sq -
 or set using the latter syntax.
@@ -74,6 +63,7 @@ is a
 .Ql $
 then the value to be set is taken from the existing environment
 variable of the indicated name.
+This option is processed after the default environment has been created.
 .El
 .It Ar identity
 The username to match.