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01/03: doc: Fix typos in "Setuid Programs".
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Ludovic Courtès |
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01/03: doc: Fix typos in "Setuid Programs". |
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Thu, 23 Jul 2015 07:42:52 +0000 |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 4d40227cceedc43b02c93da82149b7e52ac73ff1
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 23 09:39:30 2015 +0200
doc: Fix typos in "Setuid Programs".
* doc/guix.texi (Setuid Programs): Fix typos.
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doc/guix.texi | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index b4003d8..4f614e2 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
address@hidden programs, which can users can run to change their
-password, and which requires write access to the @file{/etc/passwd} and
address@hidden 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