Antw: Linux quota problem for LDAP users

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> Osman ÃNALAN (ULAKBIM)<osman.unalan@tubitak.gov.tr> schrieb am 06.08.2013
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<1864950379.1603906.1375811600562.JavaMail.root@tubitak.gov.tr>:

> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm trying to set quotas for LDAP users on a Linux server. But all the 
> users' name begins with number and when I try to set quota for a user like 
> "123456" it sets a quota for "#123456" 

There is a reason why user _names_ in UNIX don't start with a digit, just as
variable names don't start with a digit. How should a program like chown know
you use a UID or a user name?

Regards,
Ulrich

> 
> I set quota like this: 
> 
> setquota -u 123456 1500 1500 0 0 -a 
> 
> repquota output is like: 
> 
> user used soft hard grace used soft hard grace 
> 
> 123456 -- 500 0 0 100 0 0 
> 
> # 123456 -- 0 1500 1500 0 0 0 
> 
> That's why the quota I set applies to non existing user named #123456. 
> 
> Does anyone know how can I fix that? 
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Osman Ãnalan