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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:01:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
Cc:        Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, 'Dmitry Valdov' <dv@dv.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk quota overriding 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903171655510.13967-100000@nathan.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990317144148.12DFF62@woodstock.monkey.net>

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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jon Hamilton wrote:

:Under HP-UX 9.x, the behavior you describe was the default, and it
:was changable by altering a kernel config parameter and relinking the
:kernel.  The same tunable is available under 10.x, but I'm less certain
:what the default behavior is there.  Whether quotas are enabled or not
:does not affect the behavior, only the kernel tunable parameter.

This is still the default in 10.20.  At least, all of the machines around here
are that way.  It has some uses on test and lab type machines, as it makes 
some tasks not have to involve root.  As default behavior for a production 
machine, it is damn silly.  

David Scheidt

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