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@@ -400,8 +400,7 @@ header files) in order to obtain the definition
of this structure.
.IP
The credentials which the sender specifies are checked by the kernel.
-A process with effective user ID 0 is allowed to specify values that do
-not match its own.
+A privileged process is allowed to specify values that do not match its own.
The sender must specify its own process ID (unless it has the capability
.BR CAP_SYS_ADMIN ),
its real user ID, effective user ID, or saved set-user-ID (unless it has