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.