Automatic User Quotas?

johnpayback · 08-12-2002, 11:19 AM

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

donchron · 05-21-2003, 11:34 AM

I've found plenty of references to manual user quotas, but nothing like you describe. I'd like to do the same thing myself.

It looks like you can do this in linuxconf - per http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/step/1,...+15942,00.html

But I haven't found any other tools to do this (or a linuxconf rpm on the RH9/Shrike cd's).

Any ideas?

trickykid · 05-21-2003, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by donchron
I've found plenty of references to manual user quotas, but nothing like you describe. I'd like to do the same thing myself.

It looks like you can do this in linuxconf - per http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/step/1,...+15942,00.html

But I haven't found any other tools to do this (or a linuxconf rpm on the RH9/Shrike cd's).

linuxconf is unstable and buggy, one reason why its most likely not included and not installed by default no longer by most distro's.

donchron · 05-21-2003, 01:35 PM

OK. Fair enough. No linuxconf. I played with it for a little while and got rid of it.

Any thoughts on automatic, per-user disk quotas?

unSpawn · 05-21-2003, 02:44 PM

"man edquota" under option "-p"?

donchron · 05-22-2003, 01:30 PM

Thanks. That's good. I found this simple script/command at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Secur...1.3/index.html -->

edquota -p wahib `awk -F: '$3 > 499 {print $1}' /etc/passwd`

where wahib is the prototypical user name.

Cheers.

-Don