Dave Vanauken wrote:

> After doing authentication we can retrieve the username using
> PHP_AUTH_USER
> 
> wish to determin what that user's home directory is on the server from
> within
> PHP...  obviously working the
> 'pw usershow '.$PHP_AUTH_USER
> through exec results in permission problems (web uid not allowed to run PW
> for obvious reasons)... and shelling out to a script results in similar
> setuid
> restrictions...  again for obvious reasons.
> 
> thoughts?

If all else fails, isn't that in /etc/passwd?...

Read /etc/passwd and find the user and there is their home dir.

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