diff --git a/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch b/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch
index 6938fe4f..e09647dd 100644
--- a/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch
+++ b/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Hello Marek,
 
 I have created a diffile against the 980403 release that adds
 functionality to newusers for automatic handling of users with only
-anonomous ftp login (using the guestgroup feature in ftpaccess, which
+anonymous ftp login (using the guestgroup feature in ftpaccess, which
 means that the users home directory looks like '/home/user/./'). It also
 adds a commandline argument to specify an initial directory structure
 for such users, with a tarball normally containing the bin,lib,etc