[Lias] user quotas

[Simon Bryan]

At 16:17 27/08/2001, you wrote:
>On 27/8/01 4:08 PM, "Simon Bryan" <sbryan at olmc.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > Q1: How easy would it be to set all the permissions so that they could all
> > only access their own directory?
>
>Assuming that all users have an account on the linux box, and that the home
>directory is owned by the user, all you should have to do is make sure that
>the directory is rwx by the owner only (chmod 700).

Was kind of  hoping avoiding having two userbases, NT and Linux


> > Q2: What are my options with respect to managing disk quotas? Students and
> > staff will use all they can get and never delete or zip anything if they
> > don't have to and with 900 students and 100 staff disk space can be quickly
> > used up.
>Filesystem quota's will be honoured by samba. Set up a disk quota under
>linux and it will be enforced in windows.
True, but is there a package that will notify the user as the limit is 
aproached?



> > Q3: Are there any other problems I have overlooked in my naivety?
>
>Make sure that you are using clear text passwords - there is a FAQ with
>samba that you should read a few times before introducing this in
>production.

Yes, I have Samba running on all three Linux servers here. But from NT4 SP4 
(I think) you have to use encrypted passwords. Why the recommendation fro 
clear text passwords?




Simon Bryan
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IT Manager
OLMC Parramatta
http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au
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