displaying freespace for different users on system

[msi3753]

hey =), first off, i am forever greatful for phpbuilder, it has helped me numerous times, and i hope i have helped returned the favor now and again.

here is my current idea. i'm trying to come up for php code for a linux box that is hosting http/ftp/ssh. i would like to be able to show each user how much space they have left in their account. now if it was a single user, i could come up with a way using "quota", but i am unsure how to go about this, with multiple users involved. any help would be great, thanks - tony

[daveyboy]

depends on your setup. are you using cgi-wrappers?

if your scripts are run as nobody/apache, then i think you will have a lot of difficulty: IIRC you must be root to look at everyone's quotas.

Most setups won't run an SUID script, and cgi-wrappers, suexec etc. are a pain in the arse to set up SECURELY.

My personal suggestion would be to write a script which gets this info from quota and dumps it to a text file the webserver can read. run this script every x minutes from root's crontab, and just parse the text file with your scripts.