Need help with disk Quotas (phantom users)

dvazart · 08-11-2009, 08:53 AM

Hello!

After doing some tests, when I run the following command I find that there are some UIDs beginning with # :

Code:

root@myhome:/# repquota -as

*** Rapport pour les quotas user sur le périphérique /dev/sda2
Période de sursis bloc : 00:00 ; période de sursis inode : 00:00
                        Limites bloc               Limites fichier
Utilisateur     utilisé souple stricte sursis utilisé souple stricte sursis
----------------------------------------------------------------------
root      --  15153M       0       0          38511     0     0       
man       --    1076       0       0             76     0     0       
mail      --   33260       0       0              1     0     0       
news      --       4       0       0              1     0     0       
www-data  --    2380       0       0              9     0     0       
mysql     --   26684       0       0            297     0     0       
Debian-exim --     388       0    100M             18     0     0       
ftpuser   --       4       0       0              2     0     0       
awstats   --      76       0       0              4     0     0      
#500      --    2604       0       0            313     0     0       
#501      --    3352       0       0            463     0     0       
#512      --     240       0       0             22     0     0       
#1000     --    5600       0       0            586     0     0       
#1001     --     336       0       0             30     0     0       
#3001     --      12       0    200M              3     0     0       
#9307     --    3016       0    200M            342     0     0

The most strange is that these users are not in my /etc/passwd and besides, I can edit his quotas with the command:

Code:

root@myhome:/# edquota -u 500

Quotas disque pour user 500 (uid 500) :
 Système de fichiers           blocs       souple     stricte   inodes    souple   stricte
  /dev/sda2                     2604          0          0        313        0        0

How can I remove these users from quota ???

Thanks !

AlucardZero · 08-11-2009, 01:57 PM

Quote:

The most strange is that these users are not in my /etc/passwd

You sure? Not to insult your intelligence, but I can't see it for myself

. Do you get naything from:

Code:

grep 500 /etc/passwd
grep 9307 /etc/passwd

To find files owned by user 9307:

Code:

find / -uid 9307

I'm not sure how to delete them from quota.

dvazart · 08-12-2009, 01:24 AM

Of course, the first thing I did was look for them in /etc/passwd and nothing !

by contrast with the find command if I could find some files that his owns.

I suppose that if the lines begin with # the quota for these users is off, but since the file /aquota.user is encrypted, I dont know if linux does assume the typical # like comments in bash.

Thanks for your answer.