topic Re: Limit the user size quota in Operating System - Linux

Limit the user size quota

peterchu — Wed, 12 May 2004 00:20:05 GMT

We have about 300 users in the system , part of them was limited the user size quota ( /sbin/edquota userid ) , except run the edquota command for every user , what is the simpliest way to set the control for all user ? thx.

Re: Limit the user size quota

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 12 May 2004 00:27:25 GMT

To add all users to a primary group "quotagroup" or something, and then to assign quota limit to this group insead of to particular user...

Re: Limit the user size quota

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 12 May 2004 00:47:28 GMT

you could also do this:

make a list of users to be in the quota group put it in a file

while read -r user
do
# edquota command
done < filename

Re: Limit the user size quota

Andrej Vavro — Fri, 14 May 2004 04:49:58 GMT

Setup quota for user1 and copy to the rest of users by:
edquota -p user1 `awk -F: '$3>499 && $3<1000 {print$1}' /etc/passwd`

change uid whatever you need
Andrej

Re: Limit the user size quota

Andrej Vavro — Fri, 14 May 2004 04:52:22 GMT

there should be a space {print $1}

Re: Limit the user size quota

Mobeen_1 — Fri, 14 May 2004 05:17:44 GMT

Peter,
I go along with Alexander's approach. The best possibility would be to have a group and go by quota for that group rather than the users.

So basically you create a group and have quota on that and assign your users (whom you want to limit quota) to that group

regards
Mobeen