From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 19:52:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29968 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29708 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:51:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00329; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:51:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1's edquota In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote: > I use FreeBSD 2.2.1 and created accounts for our students, with numbers, > so e.g. I'm student 130. Problem is that with edquota, when I use edquota > 130, I get the user with uid 130, and not user "130" itself... I have to > search for the uid of that user (id -r -u 130?!) before I can change to > quota... Is there another way? You created a user name of just numbers? Hm.... Try running vipw and change that person's name to `s130' until you get the quota changed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message