Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:13:35 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: determine user home directory from non-priv user Message-ID: <20011121201335.GA3178@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEOGKEAA.dave@hawk-systems.com> References: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEOGKEAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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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
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