diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/sshkey/parsed.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/sshkey/parsed.rb
index cb1010c5b..6f7d98f56 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/sshkey/parsed.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/sshkey/parsed.rb
@@ -1,35 +1,37 @@
 require 'puppet/provider/parsedfile'
 
 known = nil
 case Facter.value(:operatingsystem)
 when "Darwin": known = "/etc/ssh_known_hosts"
 else
     known = "/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts"
 end
 
 Puppet::Type.type(:sshkey).provide(:parsed,
     :parent => Puppet::Provider::ParsedFile,
     :default_target => known,
     :filetype => :flat
 ) do
+    desc "Parse and generate host-wide known hosts files for SSH."
+
     text_line :comment, :match => /^#/
     text_line :blank, :match => /^\s+/
 
     record_line :parsed, :fields => %w{name type key},
         :post_parse => proc { |hash|
             if hash[:name] =~ /,/
                 names = hash[:name].split(",")
                 hash[:name] = names.shift
                 hash[:alias] = names
             end
         },
         :pre_gen => proc { |hash|
             if hash[:alias]
                 names = [hash[:name], hash[:alias]].flatten
                 
                 hash[:name] = [hash[:name], hash[:alias]].flatten.join(",")
                 hash.delete(:alias)
             end
         }
 end
 
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/sshkey.rb b/lib/puppet/type/sshkey.rb
index bf4b0aac8..c2bdd39e3 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/type/sshkey.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/sshkey.rb
@@ -1,74 +1,74 @@
 module Puppet
     newtype(:sshkey) do
         @doc = "Installs and manages ssh host keys.  At this point, this type
             only knows how to install keys into /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts, and
             it cannot manage user authorized keys yet."
         
         ensurable
 
         newproperty(:type) do
             desc "The encryption type used.  Probably ssh-dss or ssh-rsa."
             
             newvalue("ssh-dss")
             newvalue("ssh-rsa")
             aliasvalue(:dsa, "ssh-dss")
             aliasvalue(:rsa, "ssh-rsa")
         end
 
         newproperty(:key) do
             desc "The key itself; generally a long string of hex digits."
         end
 
         # FIXME This should automagically check for aliases to the hosts, just
         # to see if we can automatically glean any aliases.
         newproperty(:alias) do
             desc "Any alias the host might have.  Multiple values must be
                 specified as an array.  Note that this parameter has the same name
                 as one of the metaparams; using this parameter to set aliases will
                 make those aliases available in your Puppet scripts."
 
             attr_accessor :meta
 
             def insync?(is)
                 is == @should
             end
             # We actually want to return the whole array here, not just the first
             # value.
             def should
                 if defined? @should
                     return @should
                 else
                     return nil
                 end
             end
 
             validate do |value|
                 if value =~ /\s/
                     raise Puppet::Error, "Aliases cannot include whitespace"
                 end
                 if value =~ /,/
                     raise Puppet::Error, "Aliases cannot include whitespace"
                 end
             end
         end
 
         newparam(:name) do
-            desc "The host name."
+            desc "The host name that the key is associated with."
 
             isnamevar
         end
 
         newproperty(:target) do
-            desc "The file in which to store the mount table.  Only used by
-                those providers that write to disk (i.e., not NetInfo)."
+            desc "The file in which to store the ssh key.  Only used by
+                the ``parsed`` provider."
 
             defaultto { if @resource.class.defaultprovider.ancestors.include?(Puppet::Provider::ParsedFile)
                     @resource.class.defaultprovider.default_target
                 else
                     nil
                 end
             }
         end
     end
 end