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User ID Lists and Authority Lists

You can group authorities or user IDs into lists that you can use in GRANT and WITHHOLD records. These lists allow you to create a single GRANT or WITHHOLD record to authorize or restrict groups of users to the same group of commands. A LIST record, which you use to create lists, uses the following format:

LIST *listname listitem listitem listitem ...

You can create lists of authorities and lists of user IDs for these purposes. A list can contain only one type of element—it cannot include both authorizations and user ID. However, you can create many lists, some for user IDs and some for authorities.

Note: The list name must begin with an asterisk; the rest of the list name can be no longer than seven characters.

Use a comma as a continuation character to continue list items to the next physical line. You can continue a LIST record up to 4,095 characters, including blanks. For example:

LIST *SALES1 ABBIE DEBBIE GLORIA SILAS ANDREA,
ARTHUR HARRY JOHN JOSEPH