edquota(1M)                   UNIX System V(UFS)                    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

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





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