Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:48:13 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Dave VanAuken" <dave@hawk-systems.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: determine user home directory from non-priv user Message-ID: <15356.40877.440544.248845@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <127236121@toto.iv>
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Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com> types:
> from a non-priv account we need to determine the home directory of a user...
> used for interaction with web server.
> 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#
Let the shell do it for you....
bash-2.05$ ./finduser mwm
/home/mwm
bash-2.05$ ./finduser qmail
Unknown user: qmail.
bash-2.05$ ./finduser qmailq
/var/qmail
bash-2.05$ cat ./finduser
#!/bin/csh
echo ~$1
bash-2.05$
It even sets the exit status to 0 (user exists) or 1 (use doesn't exist).
<mike
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