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01-27-2009

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A strange user appears in my quotas and I can't find it in my system

Hello, I am running a Solaris 8 system.
I Have encountered that each time I ask the system to report to me the users who have or are about to exceed their quota limit for disk usage, a strange number appears in a user name, it does not appear in my /etc/group or in my /etc/passwd files

The user appears as #833 and as you can see in the report, the number appears as a user, with the # symbol before it
I use: repquota -a | grep EXPIRED

juanma +- 225378 200000 250000 EXPIRED 0 0 0
#883 +- 365479 10000 15000 EXPIRED 11 0 0
felila +- 15007 15000 17000 EXPIRED 0 0 0
aidadia +- 5320 5000 6000 EXPIRED 0 0 0

I've been trying to solve it in several ways, however I can't seem to get it removed.
This is what I've done so far:

I've searched my /etc/passwd for a user called #883, as I've told you, there was no user

I've searched for the user with id 883 in my passwd file, so far, no user has that id number

I've used the command "finger 883" and it returns a bunch of users in the system, however, all of them have their own quotas and none has the id number 883

I've used the command find / -name "833" but it doesn't return any matches.

I've googled the user with and without the # simbol, along with keywords like solaris 8, however, it doesn't return any relevant information sources.

I would really appreciate help, since after all ,as you can see, the user's usage of HD space is growing and it'll be really troublesome.
Any aditional information I'm missing, feel free to tell me, so we can solve this problem. I hope I'm not the first person with this thig.
We think it might be a security breach, so if anyone knows about that, information is welcomed too

Thanks in advance
LZ

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quota(1)						      General Commands Manual							  quota(1)

NAME

       quota - displays disk usage and limits

SYNOPSIS

       quota [-agGuUqv]

       quota [-a] [-g] [groupname] [-qv]

       quota [-a] [-G] [groupID] [-qv]

       quota [-a] [-u] [username] [-qv]

       quota [-a] [-U] [userID] [-qv]

OPTIONS

       Displays  quota information for all mounted file systems: those in the /etc/fstab file and those mounted manually or with automount. The -q
       option takes precedence over the -a option.  When specified without the groupname argument, displays group quotas for groups of	which  you
       are  a member. Displays group quotas for the group when you specify groupname.  When specified without the groupID argument, displays group
       quotas for groups of which you are a member. Displays group quotas for the group when you specify groupID.  Displays only your user  quotas
       (the  default)  when  specified without the username argument.  Displays user quotas for the user when you specify username.  Displays only
       your user quotas (the default) when specified without the userID argument.  Displays user quotas for the  user  when  you  specify  userID.
       Displays  information  only  for  file  systems	that  have  disk quotas and where usage is over quota. Takes precedence over the -v and -a
       options.  Displays quota information for all mounted file systems that are specified in the /etc/fstab file.   Quota  information  is  dis-
       played for each file system whether or not quotas are enabled for it.  The -q option takes precedence over the -v option.

DESCRIPTION

       The quota command displays disk space usage and limits. Disk quotas are displayed as 1 kilobyte blocks.

       By  default, only your user quotas are displayed.  If you use the -g or the -G option without an argument, the quota command displays group
       quotas for groups of which you are a member.

       Unless you use the -v option, the quota command reports only on file systems listed in /etc/fstab that have disk quotas and under which you
       have  files. If quota exits with a status of 1, one or more file systems are over quota.  If quota exits with a status of 2, there are sys-
       tem errors.

NOTES

       The term file system represents either a UFS file system or an AdvFS fileset.

       Do not use both a user and a group option in the same command.

RESTRICTIONS

       You must be the root user to use the optional username or userID argument to view information about another user, or to	use  the  optional
       groupname or groupID argument to view information about a group to which you do not belong.

FILES

       Contains user quotas for each file system.  Contains group quotas for each file system.	Contains file system names and locations.

SEE ALSO

       edquota(8), quot(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), quotaoff(8), repquota(8), quotactl(2), fstab(4)

																	  quota(1)