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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-07-23 09:39:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-07-23 09:42:23 +0200 |
| commit | 4d40227cceedc43b02c93da82149b7e52ac73ff1 (patch) | |
| tree | f6707af91c719bffcf2720d8140f00fa49de4c29 /doc | |
| parent | 6bb5c4ef71e6ed4a44cc7e6ea9b03eca2c44c8e8 (diff) | |
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doc: Fix typos in "Setuid Programs".
* doc/guix.texi (Setuid Programs): Fix typos.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index b4003d875b..4f614e264e 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5931,8 +5931,8 @@ passed to @command{lircd}. @cindex setuid programs Some programs need to run with ``root'' privileges, even when they are launched by unprivileged users. A notorious example is the -@command{passwd} programs, which can users can run to change their -password, and which requires write access to the @file{/etc/passwd} and +@command{passwd} program, which users can run to change their +password, and which needs to access the @file{/etc/passwd} and @file{/etc/shadow} files---something normally restricted to root, for obvious security reasons. To address that, these executables are @dfn{setuid-root}, meaning that they always run with root privileges |