diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
index 8e48197957..4769fa6274 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ are required and/or allowed by that objectClass.
 Actually, names in 
 .B <attrlist>
 that are prefixed by
-.B +
+.B @
 are directly treated as objectClass names, while names that 
 do not correspond to an attribute type are also searched 
 in the objectclass set.