This seems to be one way of do it...
What happens when you want to add more users?
Wouldn't it be easier to add a quota the file system?
Better yet... how about group quota?
Perhaps we should upgrade the quota rpm... currently I think it is
2.x-pre...?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On this topic...
>
> I wanted the same quota to be applied to all users. So I ran the following
> script which gave me a list of all users (minus those that I didn't want to be
> a part of this list, eg "admin" as per what follows), in the file 'userlist'.:
> ---
> ls -l /home/e-smith/files/users/ > users
> rm -f userlist
> for record in `awk '($3 == $9) && ($9 != "admin") {print $9}' users`
> do
> echo $record >> userlist
> done
> rm -f users
> ---
>
> I then set one user's quota (to use Darrell's eg, bob) to what I wanted.
>
> Then, using & changing part of Darrell May's quotas howto (this was before
> quotas were implemented on the web-panel, in 5.0), I simply replicated bob's
> quota to all others. It seems to work.
> ----
> Darrell's:
> ----
> HowTo implement Quota management
> Contributor: Darrell May
> 5.3 Assigning quota for a bunch of users with the same value
> To rapidly set quotas for, say 100 users, on my system to the same value as my
> user bob, I would first edit bob's quota information by hand, then
> execute:
> /usr/sbin/edquota -p bob `awk -F: '$3 > 499 {print $1}' /etc/passwd`
> assuming that you are using csh, and that you assign your user UID's starting
> with 500.
> ----
>
> -----
> Mine:
> -----
> /usr/sbin/equota -p bob `cat userlist`
> -----
>
> Does anyone see any problems with my method? Is there some further e-smith event
> that I should be triggering also? The quotas show up fine in the webpanels
> immediately after I've run this.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg.
>
>
> Quoting Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>>Some feedback...
>>
>>Examined both files.... my perl need a little sprucing up but what I can
>>
>>tell...
>>
>>When you add a quota to user, it updates the accounts file and adds
>>Maxsoft and Maxlimit into the account entry?
>>
>>I that all we need todo? Which event adds it user-modify?
>>
>>We are batch adding a couple hundred users, can we simply add call this
>>
>>event at adding time and specify a default quota.
>>
>>This is the exactly what we want. We would like to set a "hard" quota on
>>
>>the filesystem not on the user accounts
>>
>>Gordon Rowell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:12:56PM +0200, Brandon Friedman
>>>
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>>Hello Folks
>>>>
>>>>I am looking to try implement default user quotas for all users..
>>>>I read up about it but it mentions using linuxconf to setup the
>>>>
>>default
>>
>>>>quotas. SME doesn't have linuxconf - right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Correct - linuxconf also expects to own the configuration files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Anybody got any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>- Have a look user-modify-quota and the quota web panel
>>>- set the appropriate properties for all users
>>>- call signal-event user-modify for each user
>>>- share your code
>>>
>>>Gordon
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