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.Dd October 2, 2009
.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.
.Pp
The following
.Xr sysctl 3
variables are exported:
.Bl -tag -width compact
.It security.models.suser.curtain
If non-zero, will filter returned objects according to the user-id
requesting information about them, preventing from users any access to
objects they don't own.
.Pp
At the moment, it affects
.Xr ps 1 ,
.Xr netstat 1
(for
.Dv PF_INET ,
.Dv PF_INET6 ,
and
.Dv PF_UNIX
PCBs), and
.Xr w 1 .
.It security.models.suser.usermount
Allow non-superuser mounts.
.Pp
If non-zero, file-systems are allowed to be mounted by an ordinary user who
owns the point
.Ar node
and has at least read access to the
.Ar special
device
.Xr mount 8
arguments.
Finally, the flags
.Cm nosuid
and
.Cm nodev
must be given for non-superuser mounts.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kauth 9 ,
.Xr secmodel 9 ,
.Xr secmodel_bsd44 9
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Elad Efrat Aq elad@NetBSD.org