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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:51:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Dekkers <P.Dekkers@gromit.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1's edquota
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210195045.29893j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980210213620.126A-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>

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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



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