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 ## Purpose
 
 This is a simple tool that will simply execute a program with different
-privileges. The program will be exceuted directly and not run as a child,
+privileges. The program will be executed directly and not run as a child,
 like su and sudo does, which avoids TTY and signal issues (see below).
 
 Notice that su-exec depends on being run by the root user, non-root