LKBEN10957: Howto find the home drive of a user under Linux
Symptom
You have a certain user and are not shure about its homedrive
Cause
Some users are never used to logon
Solution
With the command echo ~<userid> you can show the homedrive of every user. e.g.
echo ~www-data
delivers /var/www on a debian system
echo ~root
delivers /root
echo ~wpeeters
delivers /home/wpeeters
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.