Setting Default User Quotas

Rather than manually creating user quotas, the easiest way of setting them is to copy an existing user. For example, now that we have assigned testuser's quotas, we could create another user, say realuser, and assign them the same quotas as testuser by running the following command:

hydrogen# edquota –p testuser realuser
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We will take this idea a step further and incorporate it into our standard user setup by modifying the createUser script that we built in Chapter 3, “User Administration.” This ensures that any new user will be created with all the correct quotas. Testuser's values will be used, and we'll modify the script by adding the lines shown in bold:

hydrogen# more createUser
<lines removed for clarity>
#
# set our company defaults
#
home=/export/home
shell=/bin/ksh
skel=/etc/skel
password=hViVZtexneY8Y  # default encrypted password
warnDays=5
validDays=60
quotaAccount=testuser
<lines removed for clarity>
#
# set the password timeouts
#
passwd -f -w ${warnDays} -x ${validDays} ${user}
#
# update the account with any "standard" settings
#
edquota -p ${quotaAccount} ${user}
exit 0
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