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>