diff --git a/bin/setup-portzap b/bin/setup-portzap
index 6b673cc..efe1269 100755
--- a/bin/setup-portzap
+++ b/bin/setup-portzap
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ doas="${localbase}"/etc/doas.conf
 ##
 # main
 if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
-    echo "[-] This command must be run as root"
+    echo "[-] This command must be run by root"
     exit 1
 fi
 
diff --git a/libexec/portzap/portzap-install b/libexec/portzap/portzap-install
index 080d7f8..c6a0845 100755
--- a/libexec/portzap/portzap-install
+++ b/libexec/portzap/portzap-install
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ run_install()
 ##
 # main
 if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
-    echo "[-] This command must be run as root"
+    echo "[-] This command must be run by root"
     exit 1
 fi