From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 12:15:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C56F37B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:14:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 166dlg-00069y-00; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:14:49 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 166dkV-0000qw-00; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:13:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:13:35 +0000 From: setantae To: Dave VanAuken Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determine user home directory from non-priv user Message-ID: <20011121201335.GA3178@rhadamanth> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:34:15PM -0500, Dave VanAuken wrote: > For example, need to find out what user "Joe"'s home dir is... we would execute > our program ("finduserdir" in this example) in the following manner to get the > desired results: > server# finduserdir Joe > /usr/home/Joe > server# Will this do ? setantae@rhadamanth setantae$ awk -F: '/setantae/ {print $6}' /etc/passwd /home/setantae Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message