EDQUOTA(8)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	       EDQUOTA(8)



NAME
     edquota - edit user quotas

SYNOPSIS
     edquota [ -p _p_r_o_t_o-_u_s_e_r ] _u_s_e_r_s...

DESCRIPTION
     _E_d_q_u_o_t_a is a quota editor.  One or more users may be speci-
     fied on the command line.	For each user a temporary file is
     created with an ASCII representation of the current disc
     quotas for that user and an editor is then invoked on the
     file.  The quotas may then be modified, new quotas added,
     etc.  Upon leaving the editor, _e_d_q_u_o_t_a reads the temporary
     file and modifies the binary quota files to reflect the
     changes made.

     If the -p option is specified, _e_d_q_u_o_t_a will duplicate the
     quotas of the prototypical user specified for each user
     specified.  This is the normal mechanism used to initialize
     quotas for groups of users.

     The editor invoked is _v_i(1) unless the environment variable
     EDITOR specifies otherwise.

     Only the super-user may edit quotas.

FILES
     _q_u_o_t_a_s	    at the root of each file system with quotas
     /etc/fstab     to find file system names and locations

SEE ALSO
     quota(1), quota(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

DIAGNOSTICS
     Various messages about inaccessible files; self-explanatory.

BUGS
     The format of the temporary file is inscrutable.

















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