edquota(1M)                                                     edquota(1M)


   NAME
         edquota - edit user quotas

   SYNOPSIS
         edquota [ -p proto_user ] username...
         edquota -t

   DESCRIPTION
         edquota is a quota editor. One or more users may be specified on the
         command line.  For each user a temporary file is created with an
         ASCII representation of the current disk quotas for that user for
         each mounted ufs file system that has a quotas file, and an editor is
         then invoked on the file.  A null entry is used if no quotas file
         exists for a file system.  The quotas may then be modified, new
         quotas added, etc.  Upon leaving the editor, edquota reads the
         temporary file and modifies the binary quota files to reflect the
         changes made.

         The editor invoked is vi(1) unless the EDITOR environment variable
         specifies otherwise.

         Only the super-user may edit quotas. In order for quotas to be
         established on a file system, the root directory of the file system
         must contain a file, owned by root, called quotas.  See quotaon(1M)
         for details.

         proto_user and username can be numeric, corresponding to the uid of a
         user.  Unassigned uids may be specified; unassigned names may not.
         In this way, default quotas can be established for users who are
         later assigned a uid.

         The options are:

         -p    Duplicate the quotas of the proto_user specified for each
               username specified.  This is the normal mechanism used to
               initialize quotas for groups of users.

         -t    Edit the soft time limits for each file system.  If the time
               limits are zero, the default time limits in
               /usr/include/sys/fs/ufsquota.h are used.  Time units of
               sec(onds), min(utes), hour(s), day(s), week(s), and month(s)
               are understood.  Time limits are printed in the greatest
               possible time unit such that the value is greater than or equal
               to one.

   FILES
         quotas              quota file at the file system root
         /etc/mnttab         table of mounted file systems





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   SEE ALSO
         quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaon(1M), repquota(1M), vi(1)



















































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