diff --git a/core/privilege-helper.hpp b/core/privilege-helper.hpp
index 380dc64..984532f 100644
--- a/core/privilege-helper.hpp
+++ b/core/privilege-helper.hpp
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@
 {
 public:
 
-  /// \brief PrivilegeHelper::Error represents a serious seteuid/gid failure and
-  ///        should only be caught by main in as part of a graceful program termination.
+  /** \brief represents a serious seteuid/gid failure
+   *  \detail This should only be caught by main in as part of a graceful program termination.
+   *  \note This is not an std::exception and BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION should not be used.
+   */
   class Error
   {
   public: