diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
index ef4171b7be..f48779c215 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
@@ -309,6 +309,13 @@ console none                            unknown  off  secure</programlisting>
       belongs to, and one for everyone else.  This numerical
       representation works like this:</para>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>This section will discuss the traditional &unix;
+	permissions.  For finer grained file system access
+	control, see the <link linkend="fs-acl">File System
+	Access Control Lists</link> section.</para>
+    </note>
+
     <indexterm><primary>permissions</primary></indexterm>
     <indexterm>
       <primary>file permissions</primary>