On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 10:00:27AM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > I use QUOTAUSER on a multi-user remote system, for a non-profit, where > people tend to forget about disk space, to ensure any new 'adduser' sets a > reasonable quota. > > If there's an alternative please let me know.
The alternative would be to use edquota -p (quota) (username) after creating the user. At least that's what adduser does when the quotauser configuration option is set. > I might contribute some tests but probably not soon. It would be nice if adduser would give a clear error message if quotauser is given and edquota is not present on the system, suggesting that the quota package be installed, and exit RET_MORE_PACKAGES, analogous to deluser's handling of perl not being present in line 198++ (probably easier than that because the existing code has to handle a failed use). An autopkgtest would mainly need to check the error handling and whether setting quotauser will actually have a result if quota is installed. I am not sure whether this also needs to run on a quota-enabled filesystem which might be hard to do in an autopkgtest. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
