diff --git a/doc/tomb.1 b/doc/tomb.1
index 7a1a45b..4806906 100644
--- a/doc/tomb.1
+++ b/doc/tomb.1
@@ -342,6 +342,15 @@ whole system's security: just add such a line to \fI/etc/sudoers\fR:
 	username ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/tomb
 .EE
 
+To avoid that tomb execution is logged by \fIsyslog\fR also add:
+
+.EX
+Cmnd_Alias TOMB = /usr/local/bin/tomb
+Defaults!TOMB !syslog
+.EE
+
+.SH PASSWORD INPUT
+
 Password input is handled by the pinentry program: it can be text
 based or graphical and is usually configured with a symlink. When
 using Tomb in X11 it is better to use a graphical pinentry-gtk2 or