From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 4 14:57:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25637 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 14:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (root@cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25630 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 14:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carbon.chalmers.com.au (carbon.cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.5]) by mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (8.7.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA15133; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 07:52:00 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <340F2E19.4D31281F@chalmers.com.au> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 07:54:34 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Grunfelder CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quota for userid nobody? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <3.0.3.32.19970904151716.00850200@pop.cyberwar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Grunfelder wrote: > What problems, if any will I have if I put a quota on userid > "nobody" on > the /tmp, /var, and /home partitions? > > I've got a user who has found a crafty way to bypass his > quota by using > the web server to create "nobody" owned files... Just out of curiosity, how is the user doing this? The 'nobody' files should then only be in the webdocs directory anyway, where they would not be of much use I would have thought. I don't use nobody anywhere on the system myself. I have a user www, with password, and start httpd as root, it then switches to www, as per the instructions in the httpd (Apache) docs. Either go to the trouble yourself, or simply lock out the user ! cheers, Robert > > > Thank you, > > Bill > .... > .................................................................. > > Bill Grunfelder System > Administrator > wjgrun@cyberwar.com Cyber > Warrior, Inc. > http://www.cyberwar.com/~wjgrun/ (201) > 703-1517 -- http://www.chalmers.com.au Books-New & Secondhand Support Whirled Peas. Agents for CIBTC. Associate of Amazon.com, and Partner Program with iBS. Books about China, books from China. Sheng huo jiu shi dou zheng Business Links in Dalian, and Beijing. Building the China Trade