Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf
James Tucker
james at rtxnetworks.co.uk
Thu May 19 01:01:41 PDT 2005
Hi,
Thanks, I have subscribed to the -questions mailling list.
James
-----Original Message-----
From: lowell at be-well.ilk.org [mailto:lowell at be-well.ilk.org] On Behalf
Of Lowell Gilbert
Sent: 18 May 2005 20:16
To: James Tucker; questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf
This has nothing to do with filesystems, so I redirected the message to
-questions.
james at rtxnetworks.co.uk (James Tucker) writes:
> I have been trying to set max file size limits for class of users on
> my system. I have tried to setup a specific class for this purpose and
> while it "cap_mkdb's" with no error messages when I copy files over to
> the users directory I find that I can upload files of any size!
The process filesize limit affects how big a file the user can *create*,
not how large a file she can *own*. If you want to limit the latter,
you use disk quotas. [There is a section on them in the FreeBSD
Handbook.]
Good luck.
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