Re: default quota limits in linux (via quotactl())

["Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@metzemix.de>]

At 13:37 28.01.2003 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:20:34AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:57:47AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> >
> > > So you can only setquota for the users that actualy log in
> >
> > the API allows you to set quota for any valid uid/gid
>
>Yes, it does. But since there is many more valid users than those
>actualy using the system, you don't want to... And a logged in user is
>sure valid, so no problem there, right?
>
> > > Well, it get's complicated, but you still can setquota in the local
> > > delivery process... I know it get's a bit complicated...
> >
> > sure, this is a perfectly legitimate argument and a fairly reasonable
> > solution to this case
>
>If it finaly got too complicated, you could add a simple code to kernel,
>that would run_usermodehelper and provide a user mode program to fix
>things up. That might even get a chance of being accepted. (And it would
>be more flexible since it can get the default quota from LDAP etc...)

is there an example( another place in the kernel where the kernel callback 
a userspace tool)

can you point me to the place (the function) where the quota entry/object 
will be created for new users,
so this should be the location where the userspace tool should be callback...

that would be a cool solution, witch I could accept too:-)




metze
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