Re: [cobalt-users] Qube2 - Changing users quotas ... NOT through GUI

[Malcolm McLeary <mim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on 15/3/00 10:42 AM, Malcolm McLeary at mim@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Is there an easy way to change a users quota without using the Cobalt GUI?
> 
> I know the GUI is easy, but it has a serious bug where it resets a users SMB
> password whenever you change their quota.  The ONLY work around is to know
> the users password and set it to what it was when you change their quota.

Since there were no takers I'll have answered my own question, but there may
be a better way ...

I made a copy of /etc/smbpasswd (i.e. smbpasswd.bck), used the GUI to make
the quota change, then replaced the "corrupted" version of smbpasswd with
the backup copy.

Cheers,  Malcolm
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