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    Tiny spelling mistake in Cert Renew or Reissue page (v21.05.2)

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    • john-lJ
      john-l
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      Hello everybody,

      Just to report what I'm pretty sure is a tiny spelling mistake in the GUI, thought it might be useful.

      I only noticed it because I had a question about the following message in another post and the spellchecker underlined it!

      At the top of the Renew or Reissue page (System > Cert Manager), there is the following text (mistake in bold, should be descendants not descendents):
      Renewing or reissuing a CA or certificate will replace the old entry. The old entry will be lost, and cannot be revoked after it has been replaced. Daemons known to be using this entry or one of its descendents will be restarted after the entry is replaced.

      From the New Oxford American Dictionary:
      The correct spelling for the noun meaning ‘person descended from a particular ancestor’ is descendant, ending with the suffix -ant, not -ent (as in she claims to be a descendant of Paul Revere). The word descendent is an adjective, now used almost exclusively in scientific contexts, meaning ‘descending from an ancestor’ (as in extinct species are replaced by descendent species). Almost 15 percent of the citations for the noun in the Oxford English Corpus use the wrong spelling.

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