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.Dd November 21, 2007
.Dt SECMODEL_BSD44 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm secmodel_bsd44
.Nd traditional
.Nx
security model (based on
.Bx 4.4 )
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the default security model in
.Nx .
It is the traditional security model based on
.Bx 4.4
and is composed of two main concepts, the
.Em super-user
and the
.Em securelevel .
.Ss Super-user
The
.Em 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.
.Ss Securelevel
Please refer to
.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9
for details.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kauth 9 ,
.Xr secmodel 9 ,
.Xr secmodel_securelevel 9
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Elad Efrat Aq elad@NetBSD.org