Re: Question about restricting Disk access

Subject: Re: Question about restricting Disk access
From: Stephen Joyce (stephen@physics.unc.edu)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 01:10:21 EDT

Apologies to the list; that remark/criticism on Patrick's tongue-in-
cheek responses was intended for Patrick only, not for the entire list.

Cheers,
Stephen 

--
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Crystal wrote:

> on 5/18/2000 4:02 PM, Stephen Joyce at stephen@physics.unc.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Richard Bates wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I'M new at this,
> >>> I would like to restrict how much disk space a Appletalk user can
> >>> access/write to.
> >>> Prefferable a round number like 200MB
> >>> Is this possible.
> >> 
> >> It's possible to restrict the allocated space per mount point for each
> >> user with a thingie named quotas which are available in most flavours of
> >> unices. Netatalk uses this quota restrictions.
> >> 
> >> :wq! PoC
> > 
> > Patrick,
> > 
> > I'll be the first to admit that I am new to this list; I have only been
> > lurking for a few weeks.  But I must ask, is it necessary for you to rude,
> > impolite, sarcastic, and at times downright condescending to your fellow
> > readers?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen
> > --
> > Stephen Joyce
> Actually, I did not interpret Patrick's response as being rude or snide -
> perhaps a bit too brief to be useful. But the topic of setting quotas on a
> Unix system is too involved to be discussed on the *netatalk* list. Server
> configuration information not dealing specifically with Netatalk is probably
> better posted on server-linux@netspace.org.
> 
> Richard,
> As a useful resource, the Linux Documentation Project keeps an excellent
> list of "How-To's", including quotas at
> 
> http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/index.html
> 
> The quota link in PDF format is at
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/pdf/Quota.pdf
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Crystal Morillo
> 
>

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