How to I retrieve the home directory of a user

Question

let's say I have a service that has a pillar-configured user associated with it now I want to fetch a tar.gz and put it in this user home directory... how do I do that...

user.info return a bunch of data including the home directory.. but how do I get only that ?

iow

foo:
  archive:
    - extracted
    - name {{ <get the user home directory here> }}
...

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited May 05 '15 at 01:18

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Trial and error got me there:

{% set my_user = ..get your pillar user or default to a sane value.. %}

{{ salt['user.info'](my_user).home }}

resolves to the user's home directory

edited May 05 '15 at 01:18

dead10ck

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answered Apr 22 '14 at 16:33

nthiebaud

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This does not work, if the user gets created during execution. – guettli Jun 06 '18 at 08:16

How to I retrieve the home directory of a user

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