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List:       wuftpd-questions
Subject:    Quota Question
From:       qbprog () staticfx ! net
Date:       2002-06-30 2:19:20
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Hello all. 

This is just a question really. I have been toying with quota support for a 
few days trying to get it to work. I have a few ideas as to what is causing 
the problem but I am unsure how to fix them right now. I may figure it out 
eventually but before I go on an impossible journey I would just like to 
know if what I am planning on is possible. Currently (due to an error on my 
part earlier on in my boxes life) I have 2 filesystems for extra things, one 
for anonymous users, and misc web pages (quotas turned off for these) and 
another filesystem for users (quota is on for this one) the filesystems are 
/home and /usr. The trick is I currently mount the user directory under /usr 
which is /usr/users into /home/users so I can then just chroot ftp into 
/home and setup privilages/etc to manage accounts. 

The actual question is if I chroot the users into /home is there any 
possibiliy that quotas will work (ie the quotas are on a different 
filesystem than the chroot environment) and due to the way chroot works is 
there a special place i have to put the quota files when in a chroot 
environment? I kinda figure the answer to the first part is no since the 
quota stuff is stored in files, and I thought chroot environments would 
probably break a quota since the names on things have changed. 

Also wondered if possibly setting up a chroot (into /home) and then putting 
the quota files in there and running a quota on / while in the chroot would 
possibly build a virtual quota system or something that was relative to the 
chroot that would allow the daemon to read quotas even if the files were 
mounted and not part of the real filesystem. 

Thanks in advance for any input
Jacob Myers 

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