User Quotas

johnpayback · 08-12-2002, 12:22 PM

How can I set the user quotas to be a default value for every new user? When I do a useradd command I need it to automatically set the default user quota that I have defined.
This is a Redhat 7.2 system.

Thanks,

John Payback

A-dummy · 08-12-2002, 01:19 PM

Read this page:

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ialQuotas.html

johnpayback · 08-12-2002, 01:44 PM

I've set the quotas already with no problems. I just need it to automatically add a default quota for every user in a specific group. Would I do that in the /etc/security/limits.conf file or would I just copy from a user that already has the right quota to all users every 5 minutes. Wouldn't that be slow? I just want it to do the quota automatically when a user is added via command line with using the edquota command. Is this possible?

Thanks,

John Payback

A-dummy · 08-12-2002, 02:07 PM

If i am not getting it wrong then you must have enabled quotas
on some filesystem (using keyword usrquota in fstab).....
to duplicate quotas use :

edquota -p <user> 20000-30000

this will set all users with id 20000 to 30000 to the same quota
as of <user>.....

johnpayback · 08-12-2002, 02:22 PM

Your right but I was trying to see if there was a way to add the quotas to any new user that is created at the time the user is created instead of having to use edquota. I guess that I could just write a script to do it but I figured that someone had already done this.

Thanks.

A-dummy · 08-12-2002, 03:15 PM

ok so you can try this :

#!/bin/bash

useradd -options $1
# -options means whatever options you are giving on command
#line

edquota -p <default-user> $1

call this script x....then
$ ./x <user-name> should do your job......there can be some
mistakes in this script ,just correct them for yourself....