Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 07:55:52 +0100 From: Rogier Steehouder <r.j.s@gmx.net> To: Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determine user home directory from non-priv user Message-ID: <20011122075552.A576@localhost> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEOGKEAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>; from dave@hawk-systems.com on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:34:15PM -0500 References: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEOGKEAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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On 21-11-2001 14:34 (-0500), Dave VanAuken wrote:
> from a non-priv account we need to determine the home directory of a user...
> used for interaction with web server.
>
> Obviously pw is out of the question because we do not wish to give priv to the
> web server (despite it being an enclosed system)... any other system base
> alternatives?
>
> 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#
>
> Again, we need to do this from the webserver or other non-priv userid.
>
> Appreciate any comments.
>
> Dave
There are several possible solutions. As an example, I have attached a
perl CGI script I use myself.
In general, You read /etc/passwd (which should be world-readable) and
select the information you want.
With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder
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#!/usr/bin/perl
#+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
#| Display a list of all users with homepages (links available) |
#+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
# HTTP Header:
print("Content-type: text/html\n",
"Expires: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT\n",
"Cache-control: no-cache\n\n");
# HTML Body:
print("<ul class=\"userlink\">\n");
while (($user, $name, $dir) = (getpwent())[0,6,7]) {
if (-d "$dir/www") {
print("\t<li class=\"userlink\"><a href=\"/~$user/\" class=\"userlink\">$name</a></li>\n");
}
}
print("</ul>\n");
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