Index: man/ettercap.8.in
--- man/ettercap.8.in.orig
+++ man/ettercap.8.in
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ means "all the hosts in the subnet".
 .SH PRIVILEGES DROPPING
 ettercap needs root privileges to open the Link Layer sockets. After the
 initialization phase, the root privs are not needed anymore, so ettercap drops
-them to UID = 65535 (nobody). Since ettercap has to write (create) log files,
+them to UID = 636 (_ettercap). Since ettercap has to write (create) log files,
 it must be executed in a directory with the right permissions (e.g. /tmp/). If
 you want to drop privs to a different uid, you can export the environment
 variable EC_UID with the value of the uid you want to drop the privs to (e.g.
