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NAME

       normality - definition of what types of normalities different users may have.

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/normality

DESCRIPTION

       The normality configuration file has a rather simple syntax, 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 normality 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 velvet 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.