EDQUOTA(8,C)                AIX Commands Reference                 EDQUOTA(8,C)



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edquota



PURPOSE

Edits user quotas.

SYNTAX


           +-----------------+
edquota ---|                 |--- users ---|
           +- -p proto-user -+


Warning: See restrictions, Chapter 18, AIX Programming Tools and Interfaces.

DESCRIPTION

The edquota command 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 disc quotas for that user and an editor is then
invoked on the file.  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 unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies
otherwise.

Only the superuser may edit quotas.

FLAGS

-p   Causes edquota to duplicate the quotas of the prototypical user specified
     for each user specified.  This is the normal mechanism used to initialize
     quotas for groups of users.

FILES

quotas              At the root of each filesytem with quotas.
/etc/filesystems    To find file system names and locations.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "quota" and "quotaon, quotaoff."








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