topic Re: Limiting users home directory in Operating System - OpenVMS

Limiting users home directory

mvr — Mon, 03 May 2004 13:00:59 GMT

I would like to know how can I limit the size of a userâ s home directory. Iâ m using HP-UX 11i.
I would like to put the limit at the 200MB per user. How can I do that for the existing users (they don't have a limit at this point) as well as, what would be the best way to that when the new users will be created.

Thank you,

Re: Limiting users home directory

Ian Miller. — Mon, 03 May 2004 13:13:20 GMT

This is the VMS forum. You have a better chance of an answer in the hpux forum
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=156

Re: Limiting users home directory

Mobeen_1 — Mon, 03 May 2004 13:15:57 GMT

Miro,
I would suggest that you try the following

1. Touch quotas in the root of the filesystem on which you would like to implement quota. In your case, this would be probably /home or /usr

2. Run quotacheck to get the file system resrources that are being utilized.

3. Use quotaon to turn on user quotas.

Finally try a man -k quota, and this will list you all the commands that are quota related and you can then try each one of them.

Let us know if you have any specific questions.

By the way this question was supposed to be posted under HPUX and not VMS :-)

regards
Mobeen
Rgds...Geoff

Re: Limiting users home directory

mvr — Mon, 03 May 2004 13:20:58 GMT

Thank you ..... Sorry for the wrong location of the question .....

Miro