[Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.

[Leon Halford - Open Systems Solutions Ltd]

> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:06:17 -0500
> From: John Kennedy <jkennedy at orent.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.
>
> 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.

If you don't want quota's then disable them...  quotaoff -a

Also, remove the "quota" mount at boot option from every filesystem in 
/etc/vfstab.

..Incidently quotas aren't enabled by default.

Leon.