[scponly] can someone explain --enable-quota-compat ?

[Paul Hyder]

This option adds the "quota" command to those a user is permitted to
execute under scponly.  (The actual quota enforcement is, as noted,
handled by the kernel.)
     Paul Hyder
     NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division
     Boulder, CO

Ensel Sharon wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thursday 02 February 2006 02:08, Ensel Sharon wrote:
>>
>>>I was planning on using quotas for my users on FreeBSD, which
>>>happens to also use scponly.  I had no idea that there was some
>>>connection between those two things (quotas and scponly)  ...  what
>>>exactly is that connection ?
>>>
>>>If I _don't_ --enable-quota-compat, and I just set up user quotas
>>>as normal, does something negative happen ?
>>>
>>>Any comments / information appreciated.
>>
>>I'm using quotas with scponly on FreeBSD 6.0 without any problems 
>>without that option.  The only thing that is annoying is that the 
>>error message when your quota is reached is a bit ambiguous.
> 
> 
> 
> So then what is that option for ?
> 
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