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Subject: Bug#89335: wishlist: tool for printing user's home directory
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Package: shellutils
Version: 2.0.11-2
Severity: wishlist

i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user
(real user / effective user / user passed on command line)
I've run across this need 3 times in shell scripting last week...
I wrote these scripts in perl then...

Maybe there is a simlar utility already in Debian, but i havn't found it and
everybody told me to awk /etc/passwd - but i'm running LDAP...

And i think such a tool belong's right next to "groups" and "id".

Might even be upstream-wishlist...

This surely isn't hard to write, basically just something like this:
(Sorry for the bad code, but this is the first C Program i ever wrote on my
own and havn't hacked some other's program ;)

-------
#include <pwd.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    struct passwd *user;

    if (argc <=1) {
        /* without parameters, get current user id's home */
        user=getpwuid(geteuid());
    } else if (strcmp(argv[1],"-r") == 0) {
        /* get real user id */
        user=getpwuid(getuid());
    } else if (strcmp(argv[1],"-h") == 0) {
        /* show help screen */
	printf("Usage: homedir [OPTION] [USERNAME]\n");
	printf("Print home directory of USERNAME, or the current user.\n\n");
	printf("  -r     print home of the real instead of effecive user\n");
	printf("  -h     display this help and exit\n");
        exit(0);
    } else {
        user=getpwnam(argv[1]);
    }
    if (user) {
	printf("%s\n",user->pw_dir);
    } else {
	fprintf(stderr, "Error: could not get home directory\n");
	exit(1);
    }
    exit(0);
}
-------

this lack's to course more detailed error messages and i18n/l10n...

Greetings,
Erich

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Versions of packages shellutils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.2-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  login                         20000902-3 System login tools                





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Package: shellutils
Version: 2.0.11-2
Severity: wishlist

i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user
(real user / effective user / user passed on command line)
I've run across this need 3 times in shell scripting last week...
I wrote these scripts in perl then...

Maybe there is a simlar utility already in Debian, but i havn't found it and
everybody told me to awk /etc/passwd - but i'm running LDAP...

And i think such a tool belong's right next to "groups" and "id".

Might even be upstream-wishlist...

This surely isn't hard to write, basically just something like this:
(Sorry for the bad code, but this is the first C Program i ever wrote on my
own and havn't hacked some other's program ;)

-------
#include <pwd.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    struct passwd *user;

    if (argc <=1) {
        /* without parameters, get current user id's home */
        user=getpwuid(geteuid());
    } else if (strcmp(argv[1],"-r") == 0) {
        /* get real user id */
        user=getpwuid(getuid());
    } else if (strcmp(argv[1],"-h") == 0) {
        /* show help screen */
	printf("Usage: homedir [OPTION] [USERNAME]\n");
	printf("Print home directory of USERNAME, or the current user.\n\n");
	printf("  -r     print home of the real instead of effecive user\n");
	printf("  -h     display this help and exit\n");
        exit(0);
    } else {
        user=getpwnam(argv[1]);
    }
    if (user) {
	printf("%s\n",user->pw_dir);
    } else {
	fprintf(stderr, "Error: could not get home directory\n");
	exit(1);
    }
    exit(0);
}
-------

this lack's to course more detailed error messages and i18n/l10n...

Greetings,
Erich

-- System Information
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debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgMichael Stone <mstone@debian.org>

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The following

	perl -e 'use User::pwent;printf "%s\n",getpwnam("eirik")->dir'

works for me.  Substitute for "eirik" as necessary.




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The following

	perl -e 'use User::pwent;printf "%s\n",getpwnam("eirik")->dir'

works for me.  Substitute for "eirik" as necessary.




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retitle 89335 coreutils: Please add tool for printing user's home directory
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Erich Schubert wrote:
> i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user

Eirik Fuller wrote:
> The following [perl script] works for me.


Erich: Do you still wish the wish you wished?
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Erich Schubert wrote:
> i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user

Eirik Fuller wrote:
> The following [perl script] works for me.


Erich: Do you still wish the wish you wished?
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Hello Thomas,
> > i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user

> Erich: Do you still wish the wish you wished?

Well, I currently don't remember where/what I used it for, but after all
this is a common task, identifying a users homedir... something I'd like
to avoid starting a perl interpreter for.
I'm pretty sure, the "homedir.c" program I used in the bug report is
still being used on the box I needed it on... IMHO it makes still sense
to have such a tool standardized, more than firing up a perl interpreter
and such.

When avoiding printf() and using write() instead, building it with diet
gcc,
the static binary is around 2k... ;-) and without diet it's less then
4k.
I mean, it's not a huge thing, is it?
I am aware that usually you can do things like "echo ~username" to
achieve the same result, but how would you e.g. obtain another users
home directory in procmail? Does procmail support ~username expansion?

I don't really care anymore, though. So go ahead and just close the bug.

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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Subject: Re: Bug#89335: Still a wish?
From: Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>, 89335@bugs.debian.org
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Hello Thomas,
> > i'd like to have a tool for printing the home directory of a user

> Erich: Do you still wish the wish you wished?

Well, I currently don't remember where/what I used it for, but after all
this is a common task, identifying a users homedir... something I'd like
to avoid starting a perl interpreter for.
I'm pretty sure, the "homedir.c" program I used in the bug report is
still being used on the box I needed it on... IMHO it makes still sense
to have such a tool standardized, more than firing up a perl interpreter
and such.

When avoiding printf() and using write() instead, building it with diet
gcc,
the static binary is around 2k... ;-) and without diet it's less then
4k.
I mean, it's not a huge thing, is it?
I am aware that usually you can do things like "echo ~username" to
achieve the same result, but how would you e.g. obtain another users
home directory in procmail? Does procmail support ~username expansion?

I don't really care anymore, though. So go ahead and just close the bug.

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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<strong>Tags added: wontfix</strong>
Request was from <code>Thomas Hood &lt;jdthood@yahoo.co.uk&gt;</code>
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tags 68603 wontfix
tags 185152 wontfix
tags 17025 wontfix
retitle 120650 coreutils: chmod: Please add R, W, S and T options
retitle 210475 coreutils: stty: Please add option to force stty to act immediately, not to wait for output to be empty
retitle 21750 coreutils: install: Please add option to compress files
tags 21750 wontfix
tags 48038 upstream
retitle 55218 coreutils: ls: Please add option to sort by type (i.e., all directories before all files)
tags 56844 wontfix
tags 89335 wontfix
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