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Hi Everyone,
AD=Win server 2003 OD=10.5.6
The problem I am having is that when I use the edquota -p command to set quotas for the large number (1800) of students at my site it will only set quotas for the students towards the end of my file.
-p signifies that we are using a prototypical user as a template to setup the quotas for other users. protostu is the user I created specifically to be the prototypical user. I first set protostu’s quota then I tried to use him to set the other users up.
(the command below sets the quota for one user at a time and opens there settings in vi)
edquota protostu(vi)
Quotas for user protostu:
/: 1K blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 0, hard = 102400)
inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)(the command below uses your Prototypical user as a template and sets all of the following users to the same settings)
edquota -p protostu 010195F067 010195M030 010197F004 …………..If I break the file up and only set 200 students at a time it will set the first 200 just fine but when I use the command to set the next 200 it forgets the quotas set for the first 200.
If I set the students quotas manually one by one as I have done with the teachers and the prototypical user it works great and I have had no problems as of yet. Even when I loose quotas on students that I was trying to automate with edquota -p I retain quotas on users that I set manually.
One more interesting fact is that when I check the quota of a user set with the -p flag it never shows them as having a quota set even if they are one of the lucky few that has quotas working. the only way to check a users quota if they have been set using the -p flag is to run edquota on that user and view it in the vi editor.
for example:
quota 010197F004
Disk quotas for user 010197F004 (uid 417976818): noneedquota 010197F004
Quotas for user 010197F004:
/: 1K blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 0, hard = 102400)
inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)the quota command works fine on users that I have set manually through vi.
I have looked all over these forums and google and have even found a few posts with similar problems but no one seems to have a solution. I would even be willing to script edquota so it modified each user individually but I don’t think you can script vi.
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide.
Sincerely,
Another Desperate AdminHave you tried it without the -P on a bunch of Users ?
eg.. edquota -u 010195F067 010195M030 010197F004
I had some issues using the -p in the past which resulted in me having to remove the quota files from the root of the volume and start again with just the standard -u it allows you to set it for multiple users at once as standard..
Actually yes I have tried it that way but it brings up each user one at a time in vi which is unacceptable given that I have 1,800 users to set each year. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Hmm i just looked tried it again with the following and it appears to work, although i only tied 5 users.
edquota -up quser user1 user2 user3 user4 user 5
Only difference is ‘-up’ as far as i can see…
yes I know I haven’t been using the -u flag but when I started this project I did and it made no difference to my success with the -p flag. further it seems to make no difference when doing a standard:
edquota user1
The -p flag failing is definitely a problem of scale as far as I can tell as I explained in my original post:
“If I break the file up and only set 200 students at a time it will set the first 200 just fine but when I use the command to set the next 200 it forgets the quotas set for the first 200.”
Yes i understand what your saying my point is that your method is correct. B)
Do these users actually have data on the volume ? If they don’t then it wont show a quota for them until they have data in place.
Here is a quick test i did to hopefully help out with your testing.
The ingredients :
– A 2008 AD Domain
– A template user called localuser as a local account on my OSX server 10.5.6.
– 10 Test AD users to play with user1 to user10.Firstly I copy the template users quota to my 5 Ad Users:
Last login: Sat Apr 4 20:41:05 on ttys000 sh-3.2# edquota -p localuser user1 user2 user3 user4 user5Then i check the quota for these 5 users (i don’t expect to see one as they have no data on the volume.
sh-3.2# quota user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 Disk quotas for user user1 (uid 1179662425): none Disk quotas for user user2 (uid 1230151183): none Disk quotas for user user3 (uid 1052254816): none Disk quotas for user user4 (uid 1570249417): none Disk quotas for user user5 (uid 1294295561): noneI then create some data on the volume that belongs to one of my AD users.
sh-3.2# cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD sh-3.2# mkdir Test sh-3.2# chown user4 Test/Test the quotas of my users again :
sh-3.2# quota user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 Disk quotas for user user1 (uid 1179662425): none Disk quotas for user user2 (uid 1230151183): none Disk quotas for user user3 (uid 1052254816): none Disk quotas for user user4 (uid 1570249417): Filesystem 1K blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace / 0 100000 100000 1 100000 100000 Disk quotas for user user5 (uid 1294295561): noneAs you can see now user4 has some data on the volume it shows up as having a quota for that user.
A quick test to show that once the user no longer has data on the voume there quota is no longer displayed:
sh-3.2# chown user1 Test/
sh-3.2# quota user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 Disk quotas for user user1 (uid 1179662425): Filesystem 1K blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace / 0 100000 100000 1 100000 100000 Disk quotas for user user2 (uid 1230151183): none Disk quotas for user user3 (uid 1052254816): none Disk quotas for user user4 (uid 1570249417): none Disk quotas for user user5 (uid 1294295561): noneAnd as you can see user 4 no longer displays a quota, but user 1 now does.
Set the quota to the rest of my users and check it doesn’t alter the above:
sh-3.2# edquota -p localuser user6 user7 user8 user9 user10 sh-3.2# quota user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 Disk quotas for user user1 (uid 1179662425): Filesystem 1K blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace / 0 100000 100000 1 100000 100000 Disk quotas for user user2 (uid 1230151183): none Disk quotas for user user3 (uid 1052254816): none Disk quotas for user user4 (uid 1570249417): none Disk quotas for user user5 (uid 1294295561): noneMake another test folder and assign the owner to another AD User:
sh-3.2# mkdir Test2 sh-3.2# chown user3 /Test2Check final quotas for all 10 Ad Users:
sh-3.2# quota user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 user6 user7 user8 user9 user10 Disk quotas for user user1 (uid 1179662425): none Disk quotas for user user2 (uid 1230151183): none Disk quotas for user user3 (uid 1052254816): Filesystem 1K blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace / 0 100000 100000 1 100000 100000 Disk quotas for user user4 (uid 1570249417): none Disk quotas for user user5 (uid 1294295561): none Disk quotas for user user6 (uid 2086228831): none Disk quotas for user user7 (uid 1941827040): none Disk quotas for user user8 (uid 897668523): Filesystem 1K blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace / 0 100000 100000 1 100000 100000 Disk quotas for user user9 (uid 1346646431): none Disk quotas for user user10 (uid 1243479013): noneAs expected only the two users who have data on the volume show up as haveing a quota
Its also noting that Server Admin often gets the quota reporting wrapped around its head and reports all the users that have been set using the -p command with the username of the template user.
Hope this helps with your testing.
I appreciate all your efforts and I will be sure to test your findings after spring break as I can not access my server right now however this still does not speak to the core of my issue.
whether or not the users display a quota when I use the quota command to check is a trivial matter to me. What is far more disturbing is that after setting all 1800 students with edquota -p the vast majority don’t have quotas working. I have tested this by logging into their accounts on a WinXP machine where they have 1.73 TB available and I further test this by copying a file that should be greater than their quota to their folder.
Thank you for your continued interest and efforts!
Something else thats worth mentioning..
If the users use AFP to connect to there home folders, there is a setting that as default updates the HomeDirQuota this needs to be turned off for use with AD users otherwise evertime they log in it just resets there quota to 0 . Doh!
Already turned that setting off. So no one has anymore ideas for me regarding my issue with edquota -p? 😥
Any chance that this is my problem?
Quota UID and GID ranges are more limited than FreeBSD
> otherwise limits UID/GID ranges. Make sure that “VALID_UID”
> isn’t larger than 65535 or smaller than 0.I found several sites that have similar language in regard to quota’s. An example of my UID’s is 417976818. Clearly larger than the recommended max in the docs I found. OSX chose these UID’s automatically so any ideas on how to get it to reassign new UID’s within the desired range if this is my problem?
Ok… i just rebooted the server, and guess what all my loverly quota’s have disappeared… so i recreated some quotas and tested them all worked fine again.
Rebooted and they have gone again…. I wonder if its the Apple’s Admin Tools over writing them or something similar on boot ?
sudo cat /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/localuser.plist
I see that the Home Folder limit is specified in the users plist :
homedirectoryquota
524288000
We could map the ID to a attribute in AD that contains a shorter number for testing that theory…
I came across this thread while having my own issues with quotas. Sadly I have had no better luck but I did stumble across some interesting observations I thought I would share that might help.
If you go into /var/db/dslocal/nodes/default and find username.plist If you have not set a quota then the field homedirectoryquota does not exist. If you add it as an array and then add a sibling string and for the value you add a value in bytes it shows up in workgroup manager as having a quota. This then persists till restart when all the above go away.I am not sure if this help but I thought the information was worth passing on.
IFB
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