Re: quotas with no /home partition and usernames with dots (.)

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:41:20PM -0500, David Smith wrote:
> 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 !
---end quoted text---

I was under the impression you had to setup quotas on a partition, not
a directory.  Not sure though.


jay


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