diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 2483de51abfeaf89d5e9cbe61d72062c63b0842d..231a716817c5b8c6590f9beee9296addc7aeaa24 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ A value of "UNLIMITED" is also supported.
 Identifies the places in which to look for Slurm plugins.
 This is a colon\-separated list of directories, like the PATH
 environment variable.
-The default value is "/usr/local/lib/slurm".
+The default value is the prefix given at configure time + "/lib/slurm".
 
 .TP
 \fBPlugStackConfig\fR
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5
index 2ff9d83a5cd1504436e26b1bd0290d5f3eeca602..b133616f2f0d53e414789586dea1303b6d76cfbd 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurmdbd.conf.5
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ The default value is "/var/run/slurmdbd.pid".
 Identifies the places in which to look for Slurm plugins.
 This is a colon\-separated list of directories, like the PATH
 environment variable.
-The default value is "/usr/local/lib/slurm".
+The default value is the prefix given at configure time + "/lib/slurm".
 
 .TP
 \fBPrivateData\fR