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Operating Systems Solaris Quotas and NIS Post 42042 by meyersp on Tuesday 21st of October 2003 01:29:58 PM
Old 10-21-2003
Quotas and NIS

Has anyone ever used disk quotas with NIS? I tried to implement it the normal way but since the users only exist in NIS and not in the local passwd file when i try the edquota command it cannot find the user.

Thanks
 

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repquota(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      repquota(1M)

NAME
repquota - summarize quotas for a ufs file system SYNOPSIS
repquota [-v] filesystem... repquota -a [-v] DESCRIPTION
repquota prints a summary of the disk usage and quotas for the specified ufs file systems. The current number of files and amount of space (in kilobytes) is printed for each user along with any quotas created with edquota(1M). The filesystem must have the file quotas in its root directory. Only the super-user may view quotas which are not their own. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a Report on all mounted ufs file systems that have rq in the mntopts field of the /etc/vfstab file. -v Report quotas for all users, even those who do not consume resources. USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of repquota when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
edquota(1M), quota(1M), quotacheck(1M), quotaon(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5), quotactl(7I) SunOS 5.10 16 Sep 1996 repquota(1M)
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