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.Dd December 4, 2011
.Dt SECMODEL_SUSER 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm secmodel_suser
.Nd super-user security model
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
implements the traditional
.Em super-user
(root) as the user with effective user-id 0.
The
.Em super-user
is the host administrator, considered to have higher privileges than other
users.
.Sh FUNCTIONS
.Nm
exposes a
.Xr secmodel_eval 9
evaluation routine
to test whether a set of credentials can be assimilated to
.Em super-user
credentials or not.
.Pp
The parameters to
.Xr secmodel_eval 9
are:
.Bl -tag -compact -width xxxxx
.It id
the unique identifier of
.Nm :
.Qo Dv org.netbsd.secmodel.suser Qc
.It what
a string,
.Qo Dv is-root Qc .
.It arg
the
.Xr kauth 9
credentials
.Po Fa kauth_cred_t Pc
of the caller.
.It ret
a boolean, set by
.Nm
to
.Dv true
when the credentials are equivalent to
.Em super-user ,
.Dv false
otherwise.
.El
.Sh RETURN TYPES
If successful, the evaluation returns 0 with the
.Fa ret
argument being either
.Dv true
or
.Dv false .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kauth 9 ,
.Xr secmodel 9 ,
.Xr secmodel_bsd44 9 ,
.Xr secmodel_eval 9
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Elad Efrat Aq Mt elad@NetBSD.org