diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt
index 942d46073a..7e1353210a 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt
@@ -1447,10 +1447,10 @@ The permission_required decorator
 
 .. currentmodule:: django.contrib.auth
 
-Limiting access to generic views
---------------------------------
+Applying permissions to generic views
+-------------------------------------
 
-To limit access to a :doc:`class-based generic view
+To apply a permission to a :doc:`class-based generic view
 </ref/class-based-views/index>`, decorate the :meth:`View.dispatch
 <django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch>` method on the class. See
 :ref:`decorating-class-based-views` for details.