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

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 25/Jul/2006 23:42 Murray Trainer wrote ..
> 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?

That won't work though ..
I checked into this further, and found that if you run edquota with a numeric
username, it will always assume this this is a UID, even if no user with that
ID exists.

 - Jamie