November 21, 2007 SECMODEL_BSD44 9

### NAME

secmodel_bsd44 - traditional NetBSD security model (based on 4.4BSD)

### DESCRIPTION

secmodel_bsd44 is the default security model in NetBSD. It is the traditional security model based on 4.4BSD and is composed of two main concepts, the super-user and the securelevel.

#### Super-user

The super-user is the host administrator, considered to have higher privileges than other users. It is the only entity the kernel recognizes by having an effective user-id of zero.

#### Securelevel

Please refer to secmodel_securelevel(9) for details.

### SEE ALSO

kauth(9), secmodel(9), secmodel_securelevel(9)

### AUTHORS

Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>