User quota management with Ansible
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Joanna Delaporte
Oct 19, 2015, 5:23:14 PM10/19/15
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Hi,
I would like to provision a system on AWS using Ansible, recreate my ~8000 users and establish user quotas... edquota opens an interactive editor, so it's not particularly Ansible-friendly. Has anyone here set user filesystem quotas via Ansible?
Thanks!
Joanna
I would like to provision a system on AWS using Ansible, recreate my ~8000 users and establish user quotas... edquota opens an interactive editor, so it's not particularly Ansible-friendly. Has anyone here set user filesystem quotas via Ansible?
Thanks!
Joanna
Brian Coca
Oct 19, 2015, 5:48:03 PM10/19/15
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IIRC the `quota` command can be used to set/modify/remove user quotas
w/o interactive prompts, its been years since i set user quotas so
things might have changed.
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Brian Coca
w/o interactive prompts, its been years since i set user quotas so
things might have changed.
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Brian Coca
Joanna Delaporte
Oct 21, 2015, 12:14:56 PM10/21/15
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Hi Brian,
So far I have found that `quota` seems to only display quota information. I could use `edquota` with -p flag to point to an account as a prototype, but that still leaves me needing to set up at least one account manually. As far as I know, the files (aquota.user and aquota.group) are not stored in plain text, leaving me without the option to use lineinfile.
If anyone is using Ansible to manage quotas, they are keeping it quiet. :)
Joanna
So far I have found that `quota` seems to only display quota information. I could use `edquota` with -p flag to point to an account as a prototype, but that still leaves me needing to set up at least one account manually. As far as I know, the files (aquota.user and aquota.group) are not stored in plain text, leaving me without the option to use lineinfile.
If anyone is using Ansible to manage quotas, they are keeping it quiet. :)
Joanna
David Karban
Oct 21, 2015, 12:31:31 PM10/21/15
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Hi,
there is an workaround about edquota problem I used some long time ago. You can override editor taht is called for quota editing. It is using standard EDITOR environment variable. What I done was supply my own script to EDITOR, that returned quota in proper formatting and without user interaction.
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Joanna Delaporte
Oct 21, 2015, 4:42:03 PM10/21/15
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Okay, it looks like there is a module for managing GlusterFS volumes...and it has a 'quota' option. I'm not sure if that applies to users, groups, or files/directories.
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Joanna Delaporte
Oct 21, 2015, 5:03:57 PM10/21/15
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It appears that on Debian family I can use quotatool and on RHEL family I can use setquota.
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