FW: setting quota per user

[Makis Marmaridis]

Chris,

the way I did the same thing a while back is by running edquota for each
user upon creation of their account. From memory there is a switch that
allows you to make a user's quota the same as anothers. So I setup a
"template" user that had quota the way I liked and then used him as the
template for all the other user accounts.

I have extracted from the quota mini howto the following bit of info that I
think is what you need.

<Snip>
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:


edquota -p bob `awk -F: '$3 > 499 {print $1}' /etc/passwd`
</Snap>

PS: I would advise you install samba 2.2.0 (the latest stable), however if
you have to go with the 2.0.x version, use 2.0.8 instead (as it includes a
security fix that is not there in 2.0.7).

HTH,

Cheers,
Makis.

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> Subject: setting quota per user
>
>
> Gud morning, guys!!!
>
> I am currently implementing samba 2.0.7 on my live system.  i am
> wondering: how do i set the disk quota on a per user basis
> automatically?  does this mean that I have to do this for
> each user one-
> by-one?  i already know how to do this per user and/or per group.  I
> just don't know how to do this one time.
>
> for example: if i create a new user, do i edquota for the new user?
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