Update permissions.md to fix garden path sentences #8206
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Description
When reading this particular documentation page, I had to re-read these two sentences twice because they are like garden-path sentences. The reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning.
For example, the reader can be led down the wrong path by combining
If any permission check fails
withan exceptions...
:Adding the comma clarifies the clauses in the sentence and will make it unambiguous from the first read-through:
Same issue for the second modified sentence, with a small typo fix.