RHBA-2008:0637 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated quota package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description

The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and
limiting user and group disk usage, for each file system listed in
"/etc/mtab".

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

• "rpc.rquotad" failed to find the mount points for NFSv3 exported file

systems. Using "quota" on a remote machine, that has mounted a
quota-enabled file system via NFSv3, resulted in the following error on
the NFSv3 server:

rpc.rquotad: Can't stat() given mountpoint [/mountpoint]: No such file or
directory

In this updated package, "quota" works correctly on NFSv3 exported file
systems.

• the quotactl(2) man page incorrectly stated to include "linux/quota.h".

The correct include statement is "sys/quota.h". As such, the man page has
been updated to reflect this.

• the "quota", "setquota", and "edquota" commands were unable to handle

numeric-only usernames and groupnames. For example, running the "quota -v
01234" command, where "01234" is a valid numeric-only username, caused
an incorrect username, UID, and quota information to be reported.

In this updated package, a new "-x" option has been added to the "quota",
"setquota", and "edquota" commands, that allows them to handle numeric-only
usernames and groupnames. For example, running the "quota -v -x 01234"
command now displays the correct information. The help and man pages have
been updated to document this option.

• the default "/etc/quotatab" file used "/dev/hda4" as an example. Running

the "warnquota" command on a system that did not have "/dev/hda4" caused
the following error:

warnquota: Can't stat device /dev/hda4 (maybe typo in quotatab)

In this updated package, the "/dev/hda4" example is commented out.

Users of quota are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 244577 - rpc.rquotad failes to find proper nfs exported file system
• BZ - 432050 - invalid quota information reported for some numeric username
• BZ - 435995 - uncommented examples in quotatab need to be commented

CVEs

(none)

References

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