SECMODEL_SUSER(9) |
Kernel Developer's Manual |
SECMODEL_SUSER(9) |
NAME
secmodel_suser — super-user security model
DESCRIPTION
secmodel_suser implements the traditional super-user (root) as the user with effective user-id 0. The super-user is the host administrator, considered to have higher privileges than other users.
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.
The parameters to secmodel_eval(9) are:
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id
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the unique identifier of secmodel_suser: “org.netbsd.secmodel.suser”
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what
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a string, “is-root”.
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arg
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the kauth(9) credentials (kauth_cred_t) of the caller.
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ret
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a boolean, set by secmodel_suser to true when the credentials are equivalent to super-user, false otherwise.
RETURN TYPES
If successful, the evaluation returns 0 with the ret argument being either true or false.
AUTHORS
Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>