diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index da51fd0e1a..c7da5d5998 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -783,6 +783,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11113. Namenode not able to reconnect to KMS after KMS restart.
     (Arun Suresh via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-11160. Fix typo in nfs3 server duplicate entry reporting.
+    (Charles Lamb via wheat9)
+
     BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-6134 AND HADOOP-10150 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
   
       HADOOP-10734. Implement high-performance secure random number sources.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java
index 0098b47f4b..b0374130e1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ private void checkAndUpdateMaps() {
       + "The host system with duplicated user/group name or id might work fine most of the time by itself.\n"
       + "However when NFS gateway talks to HDFS, HDFS accepts only user and group name.\n"
       + "Therefore, same name means the same user or same group. To find the duplicated names/ids, one can do:\n"
-      + "<getent passwd | cut -d: -f1,3> and <getent group | cut -d: -f1,3> on Linux systms,\n"
+      + "<getent passwd | cut -d: -f1,3> and <getent group | cut -d: -f1,3> on Linux systems,\n"
       + "<dscl . -list /Users UniqueID> and <dscl . -list /Groups PrimaryGroupID> on MacOS.";
   
   private static void reportDuplicateEntry(final String header,