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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2004-11-10 18:17:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2004-11-10 18:17:26 +0000 |
| commit | 2c8d1c7d5e1e84e4bfcf9b329dbf9089dd704e5b (patch) | |
| tree | f033475360672e6d8d87f7a977599281370ad89e | |
| parent | 9907019a3939f2f1d85f4061c63e6f2955f52f16 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-2c8d1c7d5e1e84e4bfcf9b329dbf9089dd704e5b.tar.gz | |
changed spelling of "super-user" to "superuser"
| -rw-r--r-- | man1/ln.1 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/bind.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/chmod.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/chown.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/chroot.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getpriority.2 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/idle.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/reboot.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setgid.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setresuid.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setup.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/rcmd.3 | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man8/ldconfig.8 | 2 |
13 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Terminate option list. .SH "GNU OPTIONS" .TP .B "\-d, \-F, \-\-directory" -Allow the super-user to make hard links to directories. +Allow the superuser to make hard links to directories. .TP .B "\-f, \-\-force" Remove existing destination files. diff --git a/man2/bind.2 b/man2/bind.2 index 6502e971d4..741fb5d711 100644 --- a/man2/bind.2 +++ b/man2/bind.2 @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EACCES -The address is protected, and the user is not the super-user. +The address is protected, and the user is not the superuser. .TP .B EBADF .I sockfd diff --git a/man2/chmod.2 b/man2/chmod.2 index 2886a6e1a4..85b5a9f9c6 100644 --- a/man2/chmod.2 +++ b/man2/chmod.2 @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ may be turned off if a file is written. (On Linux this occurs if the writing process does not have the .B CAP_FSETID capability.) -On some file systems, only the super-user can set the sticky bit, +On some file systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit, which may have a special meaning. For the sticky bit, and for set user ID and set group ID bits on directories, see diff --git a/man2/chown.2 b/man2/chown.2 index 2e4ebca7b8..3e0fc3c0e5 100644 --- a/man2/chown.2 +++ b/man2/chown.2 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ or .I group is specified as \-1, then that ID is not changed. -When the owner or group of an executable file are changed by a non-super-user, +When the owner or group of an executable file are changed by a non-superuser, the S_ISUID and S_ISGID mode bits are cleared. POSIX does not specify whether this also should happen when root does the .IR chown ; diff --git a/man2/chroot.2 b/man2/chroot.2 index 44be6ce2a0..3232e10739 100644 --- a/man2/chroot.2 +++ b/man2/chroot.2 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ and does nothing else. This call does not change the current working directory, so that after the call `.' can be outside the tree rooted at `/'. -In particular, the super-user can escape from a `chroot jail' +In particular, the superuser can escape from a `chroot jail' by doing `mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd ..'. This call does not close open file descriptors, and such file diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2 index 39960f6810..b3a3c563a3 100644 --- a/man2/getpriority.2 +++ b/man2/getpriority.2 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ call returns the highest priority (lowest numerical value) enjoyed by any of the specified processes. The .B setpriority call sets the priorities of all of the specified processes -to the specified value. Only the super-user may lower priorities. +to the specified value. Only the superuser may lower priorities. .SH "RETURN VALUE" Since .B getpriority @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ and (on Linux systems) the caller did not have the capability. .TP .B EACCES -A non super-user attempted to lower a process priority. +A non superuser attempted to lower a process priority. .SH NOTES The details on the condition for EPERM depend on the system. The above description is what SUSv3 says, and seems to be followed on diff --git a/man2/idle.2 b/man2/idle.2 index 35d13c26cd..a54f0869ed 100644 --- a/man2/idle.2 +++ b/man2/idle.2 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ never returns. .PP Only process 0 may call .BR idle . -Any user process, even a process with super-user permission, +Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, will receive .BR EPERM . .SH "RETURN VALUE" diff --git a/man2/reboot.2 b/man2/reboot.2 index af90fb7414..cbc5b074dd 100644 --- a/man2/reboot.2 +++ b/man2/reboot.2 @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ This means that the CAD keystroke will cause a SIGINT signal to be sent to init (process 1), whereupon this process may decide upon a proper action (maybe: kill all processes, sync, reboot). .LP -Only the super-user may use this function. +Only the superuser may use this function. .LP The precise effect of the above actions depends on the architecture. For the i386 architecture, the additional argument does not do diff --git a/man2/setgid.2 b/man2/setgid.2 index a2cdcad8f8..dfcc9bc460 100644 --- a/man2/setgid.2 +++ b/man2/setgid.2 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EPERM -The user is not the super-user (does not have the CAP_SETGID capability), and +The user is not the superuser (does not have the CAP_SETGID capability), and .I gid does not match the effective group ID or saved set-group-ID of the calling process. diff --git a/man2/setresuid.2 b/man2/setresuid.2 index c4e9d6f850..e51b938d5d 100644 --- a/man2/setresuid.2 +++ b/man2/setresuid.2 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ real, effective and saved user ID nonzero) may change the real, effective and saved user ID, each to one of: the current uid, the current effective uid or the current saved uid. -The super-user may set real, effective and saved user ID to arbitrary values. +The superuser may set real, effective and saved user ID to arbitrary values. If one of the parameters equals \-1, the corresponding value is not changed. diff --git a/man2/setup.2 b/man2/setup.2 index 12578ae460..d3ae830024 100644 --- a/man2/setup.2 +++ b/man2/setup.2 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ configured into the kernel and then mounts the root file system. .PP No user process may call .BR setup . -Any user process, even a process with super-user permission, +Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, will receive .BR EPERM . .SH "RETURN VALUE" diff --git a/man3/rcmd.3 b/man3/rcmd.3 index f8f99f4c95..57f1d6f683 100644 --- a/man3/rcmd.3 +++ b/man3/rcmd.3 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The .Fn rcmd function -is used by the super-user to execute a command on +is used by the superuser to execute a command on a remote machine using an authentication scheme based on reserved port numbers. The @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ address bound to it. This socket is suitable for use by .Fn rcmd and several other functions. Privileged Internet ports are those -in the range 0 to 1023. Only the super-user +in the range 0 to 1023. Only the superuser is allowed to bind an address of this sort to a socket. .Pp The @@ -143,10 +143,10 @@ and .Fn ruserok functions take a remote host's IP address or name, respectively, two user names and a flag indicating whether the local user's -name is that of the super-user. +name is that of the superuser. Then, if the user is .Em NOT -the super-user, it checks the +the superuser, it checks the .Pa /etc/hosts.equiv file. If that lookup is not done, or is unsuccessful, the @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ in the local user's home directory is checked to see if the request for service is allowed. .Pp If this file does not exist, is not a regular file, is owned by anyone -other than the user or the super-user, or is writeable by anyone other +other than the user or the superuser, or is writeable by anyone other than the owner, the check automatically fails. Zero is returned if the machine name is listed in the .Dq Pa hosts.equiv diff --git a/man8/ldconfig.8 b/man8/ldconfig.8 index e7623bedf6..444318b723 100644 --- a/man8/ldconfig.8 +++ b/man8/ldconfig.8 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ allowed. Also see the .B -p option. .B ldconfig -should normally be run by the super-user as it may require write +should normally be run by the superuser as it may require write permission on some root owned directories and files. .SH OPTIONS .TP |