Re: [webmin-l] Bug in Filesystem Quotas Module?

[Murray T. <mtr...@ce...>]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 09:49 -0700, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 25/Jul/2006 01:50 Murray Trainer wrote ..
> > Hi Jamie,
> > 
> > When I add a user with a totally numeric userid like 12345678 the quotas
> > appear normal via repquota -s /home but when I look in the Filesystem
> > Quotas module I get two entries for the user, ie 12345678 and #12345678.
> > The first one displays the correct disk usage and the second shows
> > none.  
> 
> Adding users with names like that is a bad idea, as the quota commands will
> get confused between UIDs and usernames. For example, if you run :
> 
> edquota -t 12345678
> 
> it may set the quotas for the user named 12345678, or with UID 12345678.
> Because Webmin just calls thse commands, it cannot handle this situation
> as you'd expect.

Edquota should probably be fixed but as a workaround could you run
edquota with the numeric id of the user as the argument instead of the
name to avoid this problem?

Murray