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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-15 11:46:06 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-15 11:46:06 +0000
commit85c9ba7c594c9e1658e20053dcd00403e6e314e2 (patch)
treeb9cba2183a2d7100b412afdd5c1220359e582d77 /lib/libc/sys/intro.2
parent66c4835634f1e74242f62bb59553d61059dc1a46 (diff)
- For consistency, `super-user' -> `superuser' in all cases.
- Some punctuation fixes. - Some `id' -> `ID'.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/intro.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/intro.210
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2 b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
index 8602a7e39c1..283a1d4faee 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/intro.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.15 1999/07/04 18:59:43 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: intro.2,v 1.16 2000/04/15 11:46:03 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: intro.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:33:41 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993
@@ -525,10 +525,10 @@ or group ID after reverting to the real ID (see
.Xr setuid 2 ) .
(In POSIX.1, the saved set-user-ID and saved set-group-ID are optional,
and are used in setuid and setgid, but this does not work as desired
-for the super-user.)
+for the superuser.)
.It Super-user
A process is recognized as a
-.Em super-user
+.Em superuser
process and is granted special privileges if its effective user ID is 0.
.It Special Processes
The processes with process IDs of 0, 1, and 2 are special.
@@ -651,8 +651,8 @@ information applicable to the caller.
Read, write, and execute/search permissions on
a file are granted to a process if:
.Pp
-The process's effective user ID is that of the super-user. (Note:
-even the super-user cannot execute a non-executable file.)
+The process's effective user ID is that of the superuser. (Note:
+even the superuser cannot execute a non-executable file.)
.Pp
The process's effective user ID matches the user ID of the owner
of the file and the owner permissions allow the access.