Re: Quotas - repquota reports some users by ID, which do not seem to exist

[Kent West]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Kent West  wrote:

> # repquota -sC /home
>
> 
> hollandj  --227M  0K  0K   3258 0 0
> #1013 --112K  48829M  49805M 13 0 0
> #1015 --779M  48829M  49805M  19049 0 0
> cds04a--  41424M  0K  0K  32221 0 0
> mxr02d--  20966M  0K  0K  59389 0 0
> 
>
>
> # ls -lahn /home
>
> reports no users with 1013 or 1015 IDs
>
>
> # id -un 1013
> id: 1013: no such user
>
> # cat /etc/passwd | grep 1013
> #
>
> # cat /etc/group | grep 1013
> #
>
> Where are these ID'd users coming from?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
It took me a while to figure out

Once I realized that the way quotas work is not to limit the aggregate size
of the files in a user's profile directory, but to limit the aggregate size
of all files belonging to that user within the relevant filesystem
(partition), I realized that the files owned by these IDs could be anywhere
in the /home filesystem.

So a file owned by "joe" that is is the profile directory "mary" rather
than in Joe's own profile directory named "joe", will still be counted
against Joe. Duh. Pretty obvious, once you think about it.

A quick "find. -uid 1013 -exec echo {} \;" from the /home directory by
root, and boom! There they are.

The UIDs are leftovers from an older system.

Thanks!


-- 
Kent West<")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Quotas - repquota reports some users by ID, which do not seem to exist

[Kent West]

# repquota -sC /home


hollandj  --227M  0K  0K   3258 0 0
#1013 --112K  48829M  49805M 13 0 0
#1015 --779M  48829M  49805M  19049 0 0
cds04a--  41424M  0K  0K  32221 0 0
mxr02d--  20966M  0K  0K  59389 0 0



# ls -lahn /home

reports no users with 1013 or 1015 IDs


# id -un 1013
id: 1013: no such user

# cat /etc/passwd | grep 1013
#

# cat /etc/group | grep 1013
#

Where are these ID'd users coming from?

Thanks!



-- 
Kent West<")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com