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pam_quota

pam_quota is a simple pam session module to automatically setup user quota (root excluded). This module has been used in a simple multiuser scenario on FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE with pam_mkhomedir, without any problem. Usege is straightforward, as described by the following README:

This is a simple pam session module to automatically setup user quota (root excluded). To build it simply type 'make' from its directory. To install simply issue a 'make install', and note that by default it will install into /usr/lib (a good place for FreeBSD system): you can override that giving a different DESTDIR to make. For example on Linux you may want to install pam_quota to /lib/security issuing 'make install DESTDIR=/lib/security'.

To enable pam_quota, just add a similar line into /etc/pam.d/<service>:

	session         required pam_quota.so           bhardlimit=30000 \
bsoftlimit=25000 ihardlimit=15000 isoftlimit=20000 itime=86400 btime=86400

Arguments are used to setup quota values (by default everything is zero) and
follows the dqblk structure:

   bhardlimit        absolute limit on disk blks alloc
   bsoftlimit        preferred limit on disk blks
   ihardlimit        maximum # allocated inodes + 1
   isoftlimit        preferred inode limit
   btime             time limit for excessive disk use
   itime             time limit for excessive files

THIS MODULE COMPILES BUT DOES NOT WORK ON LINUX! I don't have time to handle linux's multiple quota versions.

Tested on FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE, Mon Feb 2 01:31:36 CET 2004, pam_quota source.

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