System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

ProcedureHow to Set Up Quotas for Multiple Users

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Use the quota editor to apply the quotas you already established for a prototype user to the additional users that you specify.


    # edquota -p prototype-user username ...
    
    prototype-user

    Is the user name of the account for which you have set up quotas.

    username ...

    Specifies one or more user names of additional accounts. More than one user name is specified by separating each user name with a space.


Example 7–3 Setting Up Prototype Quotas for Multiple Users

The following example shows how to apply the quotas established for user bob to users mary and john.


# edquota -p bob mary john