7.6. Copying Quotas to Multiple Users

If you have a large number of users on your system and want them to all have the same quotas, there is an easier solution than setting each user individually. Instead, you can set the quotas that you want for one user and duplicate his settings to as many other users as you want. The only down side is that quotas are copied on all filesystems, not just a single one.

The steps for copying quotas like this are:

1.
Set the quotas for a single source user, as explained in Section 7.5 “Setting Quotas for a User or Group”.
2.
On the main page of the module, enter the username of the source user into the Edit User Quotas page and press the button.
3.
On the page that appears listing the user's quotas on all filesystems, ...

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