diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
index 4769fa6274..f2bbcde75b 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
@@ -128,12 +128,7 @@ Actually, names in
 .B <attrlist>
 that are prefixed by
 .B @
-are directly treated as objectClass names, while names that 
-do not correspond to an attribute type are also searched 
-in the objectclass set.
-This latter behavior is deprecated and might not be supported
-in future releases.
-A name prefixed by
+are directly treated as objectClass names.  A name prefixed by
 .B !
 is also treated as an objectClass, but in this case the access rule
 affects the attributes that are not required nor allowed