diff --git a/man/man5/puppet.conf.5 b/man/man5/puppet.conf.5
index 46aba0ce0dc..2e4ef32116e 100644
--- a/man/man5/puppet.conf.5
+++ b/man/man5/puppet.conf.5
@@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ Whether the agent specified environment should be considered authoritative, caus
 Causes an evaluation error when referencing unknown variables\. (This does not affect referencing variables that are explicitly set to undef)\.
 .
 .IP "\(bu" 4
-\fIDefault\fR: \fBfalse\fR
+\fIDefault\fR: \fBtrue\fR
 .
 .IP "" 0
 .