jonas@his.UUCP (Jonas Mellin) (02/26/90)
In our organization we are using a Pyramid 9810 with the OSx verion
4.0 for education. We are adding and removing lots of users each
year. To prevent the undergraduates from filling out the diskspace by
mistake; we have given each of them a quota (fairly large).
My problem is that than I removed a users, i.e. from /etc/passwd and
all of the users file I cannot get rid of the quota entry. The old user-
ids pops up in a the report the /etc/repquota command produces.
I suppose that if I remade the quotas from scratch I would get a new set
of quotas, but I am not really interrested in that (to much work).
Does anyone know of a way to remove the users entries from the quota
file or is it changed in later versions of OSx?
Disclaimer: Even a blind man may know how to C.
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jpd@pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) (03/02/90)
I believe the quotas file is indexed by UID. So even if a user is purged from passwd, u_universe, group, etc. etc. he'll have a non-zero entry in quotas unless you do something like this before removing him from passwd: edquota -p root loginid which copies the root's quota entries to the about-to-be-deleted user's entry. I assume root has no quotas established! You may want to also check for mailboxes, at jobs, secretmail, etc. belonging to the users you delete. Regards, -- James Dugal -- -- James Dugal, N5KNX Internet: jpd@usl.edu Associate Director Ham packet: n5knx@w5ddl Computing Center US Mail: PO Box 42770 Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Southwestern LA. Tel. 318-231-6417 U.S.A.
linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) (03/06/90)
In article <551@his.UUCP> jonas@his.UUCP (Jonas Mellin) writes: >In our organization we are using a Pyramid 9810 with the OSx verion >4.0 for education. We are adding and removing lots of users each I found the same thing irritating and it is one of our sites SR's with Pyramid. However, under 4.1 there is a different quota system. I suspect it still doesn't remove users from it's quota file though. I haven't tried it yet (we had a bug which crashed the system every time we said edquota). BTW, do you use 'nu' or 'adduser' to add users or have you got something else. I am trying to find out what options are available. We have used nu for years and think it's time for something new. Linda Birmingham, Brunel University. -- Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. janet: linda@uk.ac.brunel.cc | :-) uucp:...ukc!cc.brunel!linda |