# phpman > man > pam_setquota(8) [PAM_SETQUOTA(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PAMSETQUOTA/8/markdown) Linux-PAM Manual [PAM_SETQUOTA(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PAMSETQUOTA/8/markdown) ## NAME pam_setquota - PAM module to set or modify disk quotas on session start ## SYNOPSIS **pam**___**setquota.so** [fs=_/home_] [overwrite=_0_] [debug=_0_] [startuid=_1000_] [enduid=_0_] [bsoftlimit=_19000_] [bhardlimit=_20000_] [isoftlimit=_3000_] [ihardlimit=_4000_] ## DESCRIPTION pam_setquota is a PAM module to set or modify a disk quota at session start This makes quotas usable with central user databases, such as MySQL or LDAP. ## OPTIONS **fs=**_/home_ The device file or mountpoint the policy applies to. Defaults to the filesystem containing the users home directory. **overwrite=**_0_ Overwrite an existing quota. Note: Enabling this will remove the ability for the admin to manually configure different quotas for users for a filesystem with [**edquota**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/edquota/8/markdown). (Defaults to 0) **debug=**_0_ Enable debugging. A value of 1 outputs the old and new quota on a device. A value of 2 also prints out the matched and found filesystems should **fs** be unset. (Defaults to 0) **startuid=**_1000_ Describe the start of the UID range the policy is applied to. (Defaults to UID_MIN from login.defs or the uidmin value defined at compile-time if UID_MIN is undefined) **enduid=**_0_ Describe the end of the UID range the policy is applied to. Setting _enduid=0_ results in an open-ended UID range (i.e. all uids greater than **startuid** are included). (Defaults to 0) **bsoftlimit=**_19000_ Soft limit for disk quota blocks, as defined by [**quotactl**(2)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/quotactl/2/markdown). Note: **bsoftlimit** and **bhardlimit** _must_ be set at the same time! **bhardlimit=**_20000_ Hard limit for disk quota blocks, as defined by [**quotactl**(2)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/quotactl/2/markdown). Note: **bsoftlimit** and **bhardlimit** _must_ be set at the same time! **isoftlimit=**_3000_ Soft limit for inodes, as defined by [**quotactl**(2)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/quotactl/2/markdown). Note: **isoftlimit** and **ihardlimit** _must_ be set at the same time! **ihardlimit=**_4000_ Hard limit for inodes, as defined by [**quotactl**(2)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/quotactl/2/markdown). Note: **isoftlimit** and **ihardlimit** _must_ be set at the same time! ## MODULE TYPES PROVIDED Only the **session** module type is provided. ## RETURN VALUES PAM_SUCCESS The quota was set successfully. PAM_IGNORE No action was taken because either the UID of the user was outside of the specifed range, a quota already existed and **overwrite=1** was not configured or no limits were configured at all. PAM_USER_UNKNOWN The user was not found. PAM_PERM_DENIED /proc/mounts could not be opened. The filesystem or device specified was not found. The limits for the user could not be retrieved. See syslog for more information. The limits for the user could not be set. See syslog for more information. Either **isoftlimit**/**ihardlimit** or **bsoftlimit**/**bhardlimit** were not set at the same time. ## EXAMPLES A single invocation of `pam_setquota` applies a specific policy to a UID range. Applying different policies to specific UID ranges is done by invoking pam_setquota more than once. The last matching entry defines the resulting quota. session required pam_setquota.so bsoftlimit=1000 bhardlimit=2000 isoftlimit=1000 ihardlimit=2000 startuid=1000 enduid=0 fs=/home session required pam_setquota.so bsoftlimit=19000 bhardlimit=20000 isoftlimit=3000 ihardlimit=4000 startuid=2001 enduid=3000 fs=/dev/sda1 session required pam_setquota.so bsoftlimit=19000 bhardlimit=20000 isoftlimit=3000 ihardlimit=4000 startuid=3001 enduid=4000 fs=/dev/sda1 overwrite=1 ## SEE ALSO [**pam.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pam.conf/5/markdown), [**pam.d**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pam.d/5/markdown), [**pam**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pam/8/markdown) ## AUTHOR pam_setquota was originally written by Ruslan Savchenko <>. Further modifications were made by Shane Tzen<>, Sven Hartge <> and Keller Fuchs <> Linux-PAM Manual 06/08/2020 [PAM_SETQUOTA(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PAMSETQUOTA/8/markdown)