[lug] Conundrum

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Wed May 2 13:48:19 MDT 2001


Where was the quota set (for future reference)?

Hugh

"Shannon Johnston"
> 
> We found it out. There was a quota of 0 set for all users. That stopped it
> up pretty good.
> 
> Shannon
> 
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Shannon Johnston wrote:
> > 
> > > A colleague of mine has thrown himself into quite a predicament. He's
> > > setting up a box capable of SSH-ing into our network and he's managed to
> > > almost lock himself out. We can log in as root (both from the keyboard and
> > > SSH) but attempting to login as a regular user has produced the following
> > > message:
> > > 
> > > failed forked: resource temporarily unavailable
> > > 
> > > Peeking into the secure log I find this.
> > > 
> > > May  2 11:37:09 pandora  -- lupy[2433]: LOGIN ON tty1 BY lupy



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