Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf
James Tucker
james at rtxnetworks.co.uk
Thu May 19 08:38:54 PDT 2005
Yes, your reply does answer my question, quota'ing does seem to
be a solution but I don't want to restrict from users for possessing
multiples of 10MB files.
I have already implemented quota's to prevent them from taking
up more than their designated home dir space, although it didn't seem,
from what I have read, that is possible to do much else with the quotas?
-----Original Message-----
From: lowell at be-well.ilk.org [mailto:lowell at be-well.ilk.org] On Behalf
Of Lowell Gilbert
Sent: 19 May 2005 14:16
To: James Tucker
Subject: Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf
"James Tucker" <james at rtxnetworks.co.uk> writes:
> Thanks, I have subscribed to the -questions mailling list.
The convention on that list is to copy the sender on everything, so
you can ask questions without being subscribed. [The reverse of most
other mailing lists, but -questions exists specifically to act as a
tech support forum.
I *think* my answer was probably what you needed, though; if I guessed
wrong about what you're trying to do, you'll need to provide more
information.
> 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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