Extra user entry being created while creating a rule for quota using RestAPI

vkarthi2 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:12:35 GMT

My customer is creating a quota rule for a specific user using RestAPI, but the call is creating another user " " when the command is run.

Example -

Created volume and quota, no rule created

us01cmqa::> vol show QUOTA_TEST_10

Vserver Volume Aggregate State Type Size Available Used%

--------- ------------ ------------ ---------- ---- ---------- ---------- -----

us01cmqavs1 QUOTA_TEST_10 us01cmqat1f03_nvme_aggr1 online RW 100GB 95.00GB 0%

us01cmqa::> quota policy rule show -volume QUOTA_TEST_10 -vserver us01cmqavs1

There are no entries matching your query.

Executed the API for creating the rule

aneeshpa@us01nasadmin3:~ $ curl -X POST -u "user:********" -k -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"qtree":{"nme":"quota_test_10"},"space":{"hard_limit":"2147483648"},"svm":{"name":"us01cmqavs1"},"type":"user","volume":{"name":"QUOTA_TEST_10"},"users":[{"name":"user1"}]}'

{

"job": {

"uuid": "d0fb5f95-ab22-11f0-9b12-00a098c54541",

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "/api/cluster/jobs/d0fb5f95-ab22-11f0-9b12-00a098c54541"

}

With the above API we have created a rule for one user only, but one more extra entry came, wanted to check is there any way to avoid the extra entry

us01cmqa::> quota policy rule show -volume QUOTA_TEST_10 -vserver us01cmqavs1

Vserver: us01cmqavs1 Policy: default Volume: QUOTA_TEST_10

Soft Soft

User Disk Disk Files Files

Type Target Qtree Mapping Limit Limit Limit Limit Threshold

----- -------- ------- ------- -------- ------- ------ ------- ---------

user "" "" off - - - - -

user aneeshpa quota_test_10 off 2GB - - - -

The entry for user - aneeshpa is expected, but customer isn't sure why user " " is also being created

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