diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-perl.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-perl.5
index 7663e96500..3f8b4a816e 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-perl.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-perl.5
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ There is an example Perl module `SampleLDAP' in the slapd/back\-perl/
 directory in the OpenLDAP source tree.
 .SH ACCESS CONTROL
 The
-.B passwd
+.B perl
 backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in
 .BR slapd.access (5);
 all access control is delegated to the underlying PERL scripting.