[5330] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.0F: quota
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jun 27 18:48:20 1990
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 18:48:06 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5327]
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 17:13:54 EDT
From: Beth Kevles (Full Time Consultant) <kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
What's wrong:
Apparently the new version of quota doesn't have the hole where
you can check another user's quota. However, it didn't tell me that!
What should have happened:
It should have given me a "permission denied" message for the other
user.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
"man quota" shows the previous usage (where root can find out
another person's quota).
This was discussed during the testing period in the "testers"
discuss meeting.
Please remember that quota can be used to check both local and
remote quotas. Note the documentation for the "-v" option from the
man page:
-v Without a username or user id after the -v, this option
will display usages and limits for the user and any
groups the user is a member of on all mounted file sys-
tems where quotas exist.
With a username or UID, this option will display usages
and limits for the given user on locally mounted file
systems running user quotas. If the user is not the
super-user, then he can specify only his own username
here or else get a 'permission denied' error.
The documentation and behavior are both correct -- you specified a
UID, so it displayed usages for the given user on locally mounted file
systems running user quotas (i.e. nothing, since no local quotas for
that user existed).
jik
