diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7
index 0e40885c2..d16cc30a8 100644
--- a/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man7/unix.7
@@ -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