User guide

Chapter 5 - The Options File
Options File Examples
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EXCLUDE Example
#First Define the group "painters"
GROUP painters picasso mondrian klee
EXCLUDE spell GROUP painters
EXCLUDE spell USER bob
EXCLUDE spell INTERNET 123.123.123.*
This options file:
• Prevents the users “picasso,” “mondrian,” and “klee” from using the feature “spell” on any
machine on the network.
• Prevents the user “bob” from using the feature “spell” on any machine on the network.
• Prevents any user logged into a host with an IP address in the range 123.123.123.0 through
123.123.123.255 from using the feature “spell.”
• Allows any other user, as long as they are not on the excluded IP addresses, and they are
not a member of the “painters” GROUP, and they are not “bob,” to use feature “spell” (by
implication).
Note that “bob” could have been added to the group “painters.” However, “painters” might be
used for some other purpose in the future so the license administrator chose to handle “bob” as
a special case here. In this case, the two EXCLUDE statements concatenate to create a list of
four users.
INCLUDE Example
INCLUDE paint USER picasso
INCLUDE paint USER mondrian
INCLUDE paint HOST bigbrush
This options file:
• Allows the user “picasso” to use the feature “paint” on any machine on the network.
• Allows the user “mondrian” to use the feature “paint” on any machine on the network.
• Allows any user, as long as they are on the host “bigbrush,” to use feature “paint.”
• Denies access to the feature “paint” to anyone except “picasso,” “mondrian,” or anyone
from the host “bigbrush” (by implication).