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/ufs_quota.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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