diff --git a/man2/ioperm.2 b/man2/ioperm.2
index ec4612ba2..3470a8dc5 100644
--- a/man2/ioperm.2
+++ b/man2/ioperm.2
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Permissions are not inherited by the child created by
 .BR fork (2).
 Permissions are preserved across
 .BR execve (2);
-this is useful for giving port access permissions to non-privileged
+this is useful for giving port access permissions to unprivileged
 programs.
 
 This call is mostly for the i386 architecture.
diff --git a/man2/setresuid.2 b/man2/setresuid.2
index 6145b58ba..5ba5bb4b3 100644
--- a/man2/setresuid.2
+++ b/man2/setresuid.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Completely analogously,
 sets the real GID, effective GID, and saved set-group-ID
 of the calling process (and always modifies the file system GID
 to be the same as the effective GID),
-with the same restrictions for non-privileged processes.
+with the same restrictions for unprivileged processes.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success, zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index a470af167..d116c679e 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ used for the application buffer is one fourth that of the total.
 .TP
 .IR tcp_allowed_congestion_control " (String; default: see text; since Linux 2.4.20)"
 .\" The following is from 2.6.28-rc4: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
-Show/set the congestion control algorithm choices available to non-privileged
+Show/set the congestion control algorithm choices available to unprivileged
 processes (see the description of the
 .B TCP_CONGESTION
 socket option).