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 .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:27 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .TH SECURETTY 5 2015-03-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-securetty \- file which lists terminals from which root can log in
+securetty \- list of terminals on which root is allowed to login
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The file
 .I /etc/securetty