SECMODEL_SUSER(9)

okay bestie, welcome to SECMODEL_SUSER(9) — the Kernel Developer's Manual page that's lowkey all about the super-user security model 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

secmodel_suser — super-user security model 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So secmodel_suser implements the traditional super-user (root) as the user with effective user-id 0. The super-user is the host administrator, and is considered to have higher privileges than other users. That's the whole vibe: root is the main character 👑 periodt.

💅 FUNCTIONS 💅

secmodel_suser exposes a secmodel_eval(9) evaluation routine to test whether a set of credentials can be assimilated to super-user credentials or not. It's giving "vibe check, but for credentials" 🔥

The parameters to secmodel_eval(9) are:

• id — the unique identifier of secmodel_suser: "org.netbsd.secmodel.suser" 🎀
• what — a string, and that string is "is-root" 🦋
• arg — the kauth(9) credentials (kauth_cred_t) of the caller 🌸
• ret — a boolean, set by secmodel_suser to true when the credentials are equivalent to super-user, and false otherwise 💖

🌈 RETURN TYPES 🌈

If successful, the evaluation returns 0 with the ret argument being either true or false. No cap, that's the return situation 😌✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• kauth(9)
• secmodel(9)
• secmodel_bsd44(9)
• secmodel_eval(9)

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org> 💜

byeee 🫶 — this page's cute little footer is from Debian, dated December 4, 2011, for SECMODEL_SUSER(9) 💖✨