> On 2 Feb 2017, at 08:37, Richter, Michael <m.rich...@tu-berlin.de> wrote: > > And the output will be shown in LightDM? I'll give that a try.
Better yet, something like this just works as one would hope: echo WARNING: Your home directory is almost full. echo Hit Enter to try to log in, but it may fail. echo If it does, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in on the echo text screen and free some space. Then log out echo and press Alt-F7 to get back here. exit 0 - Stephan > -----UrsprĂźngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Stephan Wiesand [mailto:stephan.wies...@desy.de] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2017 13:08 > An: openafs-info@openafs.org > Cc: Richter, Michael > Betreff: Re: [OpenAFS] Check free space on AFS share before login > > Hi Michael, > >> On 1 Feb 2017, at 11:08, Richter, Michael <m.rich...@tu-berlin.de> 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 doesnât >> give a meaningful error message. I think, Ubuntu doesnât know whatâs the >> problem, because it sees only â/â 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 canât >> 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- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
