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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 |