[Haifux] SVN quota

[Tzafrir Rehan]

Maybe there is a way to have an ssh server which will always run quota and
exit before starting the user's shell?

That way SSHing into the server will never let a user do anything but
knowing his quota.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Maxim Kovgan <kovganm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think there is a problem to run the quota query from a web server,
> b/c the UID of the webserver process is not allowed to run quota stuff,
> and all the web technologies usually limit setuid() related stuff.
> And you don't want to run a CGI script as root, you really don't.
>
> So, the only relatively safe solution would be to build 2 scripts:
> 1. script to generate the quota database, and it should run once per 1-5
> minutes
> 2. CGI/FastCGI/WSCGI script to query that database
>
> If users' repositories reside on the expense of their home
> directories, maybe a webmin/usermin web application allows to watch
> quota status with some nice module,
>
> SQLite looks like a good candidate, but even CSV is ok, as long as
> you make sure you use flock() like functions to lock the db file
> properly when you read/write, etc.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Maxim Kovgan <kovganm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > well, I'm not aware of anything ready to use, but there might be one -
> > a CGI/FastCGI or WSGI something.
> > you're interested in just showing quota command output with proper args.
> > If you choose Perl, you may use Quota;
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Shahar Dag <dag at cs.technion.ac.il>
> wrote:
> >> Max
> >>
> >> Writing  pre-commit script & writing a cron-job that test the quota are
> >> almost equal effort.
> >> I am not sure which one is better.
> >> What I am looking for is a tool that will enable the users check the
> quota
> >> on the svn machine
> >>
> >> Shahar
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Maxim Kovgan" <kovganm at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Shahar Dag" <dag at cs.technion.ac.il>
> >> Cc: "Haifaux" <haifux at haifux.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:56 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Haifux] SVN quota
> >>
> >>
> >>> hi Shahar!
> >>> A possible solution if your svn repository is stored on a filesystem
> could
> >>> be
> >>> a "pre-commit hook" script, that would basically:
> >>> * check user's/project's repository quota against filesystem
> >>> * act accordingly to the result, upon:
> >>>   * OK - do commit
> >>>   * Warning (quota threshold reached) - print the result, and commit
> >>>   * Quota exceeded - print the result and NOT commit
> >>> Of course take care of the return values of the script properly.
> >>> The script may even send an email to the user, if you have email in
> NIS.
> >>>
> >>> I do not know how different SVN clients would respond to the
> >>> non-standard messages in the output of SVN client.
> >>> This is what you will have to check for yourself.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> M.
> >>>
> >>> 2010/1/18 Shahar Dag <dag at cs.technion.ac.il>:
> >>>> Hello
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a LINUX server (RHE 4) that among other things serves as SVN
> >>>> server
> >>>> (the SVN server runs over apache).
> >>>> Users can access their repository via https, but they can't login to
> the
> >>>> server (not even with ssh).
> >>>> To access the SVN, users must supply their NIS user name & password.
> >>>> Every SVN repository has it's own quota limitation.
> >>>>
> >>>> The question is: do SVN users have any way to test their quota?
> >>>> (I don't want to write a cron job that warns the users when they are
> over
> >>>> 80% of the quota)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Shahar
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