edquota(1M) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES 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 speci-
fied 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 tem-
porary 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 quo-
tas. See quotaon(1M) for details. proto_user and username
can be numeric, corresponding to the uid of a user. Unas-
signed 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
SEE ALSO
quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaon(1M), repquota(1M), vi(1)
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