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diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_protocol.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_protocol.xml
index 529558759e..6a253c43eb 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_protocol.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_protocol.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
authentication and integrity protection. Currently, only a
minimum of MAC- (message authentication code, a short piece of
information used to authenticate a message) and encryption
- algorithms see <seealso marker="ssh">ssh(3)</seealso>
+ algorithms are supported see <seealso marker="ssh">ssh(3)</seealso>
</p>
</section>
@@ -52,10 +52,18 @@
interactive authentication. This method is suitable for
interactive authentication methods that do not need any special
software support on the client side. Instead, all authentication
- data should be entered via the keyboad. It is also possible
+ data should be entered via the keyboard. It is also possible
to use a pure password based authentication scheme, note that in
- this case the the plain text password will be encrypted befor sent
- over the network.
+ this case the the plain text password will be encrypted before sent
+ over the network. There are several configuration options for
+ authentication handling available in
+ <seealso marker="ssh#connect-3">ssh:connect/[3,4]</seealso>
+ and <seealso marker="ssh#daemon-2">ssh:daemon/[2,3]</seealso>
+ It is also possible to customize the public key handling
+ by implementing the behaviours <seealso
+ marker="ssh_client_key_api">ssh_client_key_api</seealso> and
+ <seealso
+ marker="ssh_server_key_api">ssh_server_key_api</seealso>
</p>
</section>
@@ -82,7 +90,7 @@
channel. The <seealso
marker="ssh_channel">ssh_channel</seealso> behaviour makes it easy to
write your own SSH client/server processes that use flow
- control. It handles generic parts of SSH channel managment and
+ control. It handles generic parts of SSH channel management and
lets you focus on the application logic.
</p>
@@ -91,7 +99,7 @@
<list type="bulleted">
<item><em>Subsystem</em> - named services that can be run as
part of an SSH server such as SFTP <seealso
- marker="ssh_sftp">ssh_sftp</seealso>, that is built in to the
+ marker="ssh_sftpd">ssh_sftpd</seealso>, that is built in to the
SSH daemon (server) by default but may be disabled. The Erlang SSH
daemon may be configured to run any Erlang
implemented SSH subsystem.