Limit the user size quota

[peterchu]

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.

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

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...

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Andrej Vavro]

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

[Andrej Vavro]

there should be a space {print $1}

[Mobeen_1]

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