diff --git a/book/04-git-server/sections/git-daemon.asc b/book/04-git-server/sections/git-daemon.asc
index f3d6ec150..055ddd278 100644
--- a/book/04-git-server/sections/git-daemon.asc
+++ b/book/04-git-server/sections/git-daemon.asc
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ respawn
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 For security reasons, it is strongly encouraged to have this daemon run as a user with read-only permissions to the repositories – you can easily do this by creating a new user 'git-ro' and running the daemon as them.
-For the sake of simplicity we'll simply run it as the same 'git' user that `git-shell` is using as.
+For the sake of simplicity we'll simply run it as the same 'git' user that `git-shell` is running as.
 
 When you restart your machine, your Git daemon will start automatically and respawn if it goes down.
 To get it running without having to reboot, you can run this: