To control access, argus wants to know who is permitted to access what. Associated with every valid user is:
As distributed, argus gets this data from a text file called users in the data directory.
The format of the users file is:
username encrypted_password home_obj groups...
as an example:
anonymous any Top user joe xraO.jc8wztJQ Top staff bobby UtDsk/kLoJ/HU Top:Customers:YoYoDyne yoyo
The password field is encrypted using your systems standard passwd crypt() function. The special value any will permit any password.
The home_object field specifies the name of the object for the user's default page. This is what the user will see when they first log in to argus. It is just like a unix home directory.
The groups field is a white-space separated list of access control groups. Access control groups are documented further somewhere else.