typo in capabilities(7) man page

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Dear Maintainers,

I have found a small typo in capabilities(7). As per instructions[1],
I'm reporting it directly via email.

Under the capability CAP_SYS_ADMIN it says that you need it if you
want to

 'forge UID when passing socket credentials;'

This should read instead:

 'forge PID when passing socket credentials;'

Rationale:

UID/GID are governed by CAP_SET[UG]ID instead (which is already
correctly mentioned in the man page), only PID requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

The check in the kernel source can be found in:
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/core/scm.c#n47>

Thanks!

Christian

[1] <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html>

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