From 7cd10c807fd5fc1eb565121c8e22e7074364c19b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Armon Dadgar Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:08:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] website: rewording --- website/source/docs/internals/acl.html.markdown | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/internals/acl.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/internals/acl.html.markdown index d5063ff2e7..166094fa09 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/internals/acl.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/internals/acl.html.markdown @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ sidebar_current: "docs-internals-acl" # ACL System Consul provides an optional Access Control List (ACL) system which can be used to control -access to data and APIs. The ACL system is an -[Object-Capability system](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model) that relies +access to data and APIs. The ACL system is a +[Capability-based system](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security) that relies on tokens which can have fine grained rules applied to them. It is very similar to [AWS IAM](http://aws.amazon.com/iam/) in many ways.