normality(5)					     normality(5)

NAME
       normality  -  definition of what types of normalities dif-
       ferent users may have.

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/normality

DESCRIPTION
       The normality configuration file has a rather simple  syn-
       tax,  as  shown	in  the diagram in the next section. Some
       things to remember is that the normality file's	influence
       is  inversely  proportional  to the user's cluefulness and
       that, in certain cirumstances, modification of the normal-
       ity file can and will be considered immoral.

NORMALITY GRAMMAR
       <normality file> := <normality file> <line> |
			   ;
       <line> := <normality type> ': ' <userlist> |
		 <normality type> '! ' <userlist> |
		 <normality type> '= ' <normality tags> |
		 <comment>
       <normality type> := [A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]+
       <userlist> := <username> ', ' <userlist> ';0 |
		     <username> ';0
       <normality tags> := <normality tag> ', ' <normality tags> ';0 |
			   <normality tag> ';0
       <normality tag> := 'marriage' |
			  'love-relation' |
			  'nice-job' |
			  'money' |
			  'spare-time' |
			  'friends' |
			  'no-pager' |
			  'vacation'
       <comment> := '#' .* '0

SEMANTICS
       It is expected that you specify all normality types before
       you start assigning (or disassigning) users to  (or  from)
       them.  That  is so the system can do an easier consistency
       check of the specification.

       Let's say that we  have	a  system  with  three	normality
       types,  foo,  bar  and  gazonk and two users, cucumber and
       onion.

       Now, a line like "foo! onion;" would  exclude  onion  from
       having  any  of	the real-life things specified by the foo
       type, even if that (or those)  things  appear  in  another
       normality  type.  So,  the  disallow  syntax overrides the
       allow syntax (specified by "<type>: <username>...").

       There is always	an  implicit  type  named  ``all'',  that
       contains all normality tags.

       For  all system administrators, you have an implicit rule,
       "all!  asr".

EXAMPLES
       # Normality file for a sad system
       # Our users are onion, cucumber, jdoe, jrl and washu
       animetype= love-relation, nice-job, friends, spare-time;
       notworst= love-relation, nice-job, friends;
       sysadm= friends;
       # All normality types we will use are declared
       # Now let's do the magic stuff...
       all: jdoe, jrl;
       animetype: washu;
       sysadm: cucumber;
       all! onion;
       # Now, this is fairly easy, OK?

WARNINGS AND BUGS
       This file messes with the real world, so a bit of  caution
       is  recommended. Newer versions of the chastise(3) library
       function modifies this file on-the-fly.

       Has a tendecy to create small discontinuities in the  vel-
       vet  of	reality  whenever  there are syntax errors in the
       normality file.

AUTHOR
       This sick idea was put down  in	*roff  format  by  Ingvar
       Mattsson,  as  a contribution to the alt.sysadmin.recovery
       man page collection.

		       Release 0.001 alpha