Hello
I have a couple of questions.
First, I want to configure quotas for the users in my redhat 9 box. I've
done it before, and it was quite simple, I just add the usrquota param to
the entry of the home directory (partition) in the fstab file
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 1 2
and then remount the partition and create de /home/aquota.user file and
define the quotas for each user.
The problem now is that I want to configure quotas but I have a redhat with
no home partition, just de / partition. Here's de 'df' command result
/dev/hda2 38961432 2074296 34907928 6% /
/dev/hda1 101089 9275 86595 10% /boot
none 111496 0 111496 0% /dev/shm
And the contents on the fstab file
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
So I tried to configure the quotas, and because there's no /home partition I
used the / partition. I modified the fstab file like this
LABEL=/ / ext3
defaults,usrquota 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
Remount the partition and create de /aquota.user. Then I created the quotas
for users using 'edquota -u user' and it looks like it's ok. But the user
can pass the quota (soft and hard too) with no problems or reports. I guess
ir's the user directory is in the /home directory, and the quotas defined
are in the / directory.
But How can I define quotas if I have these configuration with no
partitions????. I think it can be possible but I tried and could no get it,
and I really don't want to re partition the system, even more since I'm not
a linux guru, I'm almost a newbie. ;)
Thanx if anybody can help me with this. I would really appreciated.
My next question is about user names. I want to have in my machine user
names like "name.lastname" or something similar including a dot in the user
name. But the standard instalation of shrike don't let me add users with
dots in their login.
[root@machine root]# adduser name.lastname
adduser: invalid user name 'name.lastname'
Is it possible to change some configuration, or override the username rules
to let me create usernames like the one I mentioned ?? Including a dot in
it ???
Thanx again and sorry about the length of this mail, but I hope you can help
me and help others since I could not find information or talks about it in
the archives.
Thanx again and again
bye
David !
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