[Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.

[John Kennedy]

Leon,
Thanks for the suggestion.  The problem we are having is that we do not
want a user quota at all.  We are a Graphic Arts company.  As a result
there are several large graphic files that will be worked on by several
people.  If one user is working on a large page of graphics we can't
have a quota for this user stopping them from working.  The only way we
can do this right now is to have each department log on with only 1 user
ID (up to 40 people using the same Logon ID is not quite my idea of
secure) and set the user quota that way.
I want to give everyone their own ID for obvious security reasons but
can't figure out the quota's.
John



Leon Halford - Open Systems Solutions Ltd wrote:
> 
> Try the following..
> > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:09:27 -0500
> > From: John Kennedy <jkennedy at orent.com>
> > Subject: [Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.
> >
> > I am looking for a script or app that will allow me to set disk quotas
> > by group instead of by user.
> 
> Try something like the following.. it all comes down to using the (edquota -p
> command though). I'm assuming use of /etc/passwd, swap for ypcat passwd if using
> NIS.
> 
> GROUPNAME="lp"
> groups `cat /etc/passwd | awk '{FS=":";print $1}'` | grep " $GROUPNAME" | awk
> '{print $1}' | xargs edquota -p template_user
> 
> Where template_user is a quota profile previously defined for a typical user of
> the group.
> 
> For more information, man edquota (-p option)
> 
> Leon Halford.
> 
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