edquota(1M)                                              edquota(1M)


       NAME
             edquota - edit user quotas for ufs file system

       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.  The
             quotas may then be modified, new quotas added, and so on.
             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 a privileged 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.




                           Copyright 1994 Novell, Inc.               Page 1

      edquota(1M)                                              edquota(1M)


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

      REFERENCES
            quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaon(1M), repquota(1M), vi(1)










































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