diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
index 2f078aa20a55006d2876ac38e5c6b4cc2ae4c9d8..ef4111db4eaac7b9796d57d4b24ab5371dfad60f 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
@@ -177,14 +177,14 @@ refers to everybody.
 .LP
 The keyword
 .B anonymous
-means access is granted to unauthenticated users; it is moslty used 
+means access is granted to unauthenticated clients; it is mostly used 
 to limit access to authentication resources (e.g. the
 .B userPassword
-attribute) to unauthenticated users for authentication purposes.
+attribute) to unauthenticated clients for authentication purposes.
 .LP
 The keyword
 .B users
-means access is granted to authenticated users.
+means access is granted to authenticated clients.
 .LP
 The keyword
 .B self
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ access means that one is allowed access to an attribute to perform
 authentication/authorization operations (e.g.
 .BR bind )
 with no other access.
-This is useful to grant unauthenticated users the least possible 
+This is useful to grant unauthenticated clients the least possible 
 access level to critical resources, like passwords.
 .LP
 The
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ or the (even more silly) example
 .fi
 .LP
 which grants everybody search and compare privileges, and adds read
-privileges to authenticated users.
+privileges to authenticated clients.
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 ETCDIR/slapd.conf
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
index e696f529b2c106b440a427b111c44414a67f6058..2dea58c450441a2773f60d786810c63def12ee52 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
@@ -279,10 +279,12 @@ with
 <style> ::= exact | base | one | subtree | children | regex | anonymous
 
 .RE
-.B Anonymous
-is hit when a search is performed without prior binding;
+The term
+.B anonymous
+matches all unauthenticated clients.
+the term
 .B users
-is hit when a search is performed by a successfully bound user;
+matches all authenticated clients;
 otherwise a
 .B regex
 dn pattern is assumed unless otherwise specified by qualifying