On 27Apr2007 09:55, G?tz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | we run several Redhat Linux servers and recently we noticed, that some | of our users do have a problem with their quota. | | We changed our policy for the students username to be their registration | number; e.g. 0306025. We create the accounts and set the quota by the | tool webmin (www.webmin.com), which uses setquota for handling quotas. I think this is your problem. Numeric user names are generally a bad idea bad many contexts will accept a login _or_ a uid, and they distinguish by seeing if it looks numeric. Better still, your leading zero can confuse some programs into treating the apparent "uid" as basic 8 (octal) if they're carelss with their choice of "read this number" function. Can I recommend that you shift to putting a leading letter on your logins, eg "s0306025". [...] | For users having unlimited space, I can't set the quota from within | webmin, but doing an edquota, the quota shows 0 blocks used even if | there is space used and the soft and hard limits are set to the limit I | set by webmin. | An other strange thing is, that the edquota command shows a strange uid | which isn't the same as in the /etc/passwd-file. [...] Looking at "man edquota": One or more users or groups may be speci- fied on the command line. If a number is given in the place of user/group name it is treated as an UID/GID. That's going to cause you trouble right there. | repquota -a|grep 0306025 | 0306025 -- 242144 307200 665600 106 0 0 | edquota 0306025 | Disk quotas for user 0306025 (uid 101397): | Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard | /dev/sda6 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | grep 0306025 /etc/passwd | 0306025:x:787:503:Amelie Kuester:/home/studenten/0306025:/sbin/nologin | | after doing | setquota -u 0306025 102411 204811 600 610 -a [...] | Any ideas? Does: repquota -an | egrep '(306025|787|101397)' Show anything interesting? 787 is 0306025's uid. 101397 is 306025 interpreted as an octal number (which a leading zero will do for some conversion functions). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ When I finally kick the bucket I'll probably crawl out of my grave every few days just to check my mail..... - Peter Gutmann <pgut1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
