NAME

edquota − edit user quotas

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/edquota [ −p proto-user ] users...

DESCRIPTION

Edquota is a quota editor.  One or more users may be specified one 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. 

If the −p option is specified, edquota will 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. 

The editor invoked is vi(1) unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise.

Only the super-user may edit quotas. 

FILES

quotasat the root of each file system with quotas
/etc/fstabto find file system names and locations

SEE ALSO

quota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

DIAGNOSTICS

Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory. 

BUGS

The format of the temporary file is inscruitable. 

Sun System Release 1.0  —  13 August 1983