normality(5) - defination of what types of normalities different users may have

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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 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 hav-
     ing  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  con-
     tains all normality tags.

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

EXAMPLES
     animetype= love-relation, nice-job, friends, spare-time;
     notworst= love-relation, nice-job, friends;
     sysadm= friends;
     all: jdoe, jrl;
     animetype: washu;
     sysadm: cucumber;
     all! onion;

WARNINGS AND BUGS
     This file messes with the real world, so a bit of caution is
     recommended. Newer versions of the chastise(3) library func-
     tion 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 Matts-
     son, as a contribution to the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page
     collection.