[Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.

[John Kennedy]

Leon,
We do need the quota.  We just don't need it for users.  We need it for
departments.
John


Leon Halford - Open Systems Solutions Ltd wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
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