Hi Michael,
> On 1 Feb 2017, at 11:08, Richter, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> we are using OpenAFS for the home drive. /home/users is a symlink to the AFS
> path with all the home shares. The users home is for example
> /home/users/username.
>
> The users only have 1 GB of space available in that share. It often happens
> that the quota is reached and they are unable to login. Ubuntu doesn’t give a
> meaningful error message. I think, Ubuntu doesn’t know what’s the problem,
> because it sees only “/” as mountpoint, which has enough free space available.
>
> Is there a way to check the free space of the user on login and give the user
> a good error message if there is not enough free space available in the AFS
> share?
nice idea... I should probably implement that here. Something like
auth required pam_exec.so stdout /bin/check_home_space
should work well enough at least with lightdm. Just make the script print a
short message to stdout and exit 1 in the failure case.
Hth
Stephan
>
> I think about using pam-script to run a script that checks it but I can’t see
> a way to bring back that message to the user. Also pam-afs-session seems not
> to have some option for that. Is there some other solution?
>
> Greetings
> Michael
--
Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
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15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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