Put a file into users home directory

[Oscar Korz]

I've got a very silly question that I haven't been able to find a simple solution to:

I want to copy a config file into users' home directories but I don't know their home directories on the controller (and they may vary from host to host). What's the best way to look up a user's home directory on the host? I know that I could capture the output from a shell command, but this feels hacky. I'd prefer a solution that doesn't get flagged as "changed" every time.

Thanks,

Oscar.

[Michael DeHaan]

You can just use "~/" on the path name for the "dest" file, the homedir will expand on the remote side as you expect.

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[Oscar Korz]

Ah, thanks for the quick response.

[Serge van Ginderachter]

On 19 April 2013 19:35, Michael DeHaan <michael...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can just use "~/" on the path name for the "dest" file, the homedir will expand on the remote side as you expect.

​Be aware that this is the home directory or the user you are logging on to the remote host with.​

If you need to copy to other users home directory, knowing their usernames, you can use "~username/".

You probably will need root permissions to do that, and don't orget to set the file's permissions to the target user.

Serge

[Rohit Dubey]

Hi : 

I am a newbie .   Would the  user subtitution from vars file also i.e  ~{{user}}/<sub-dir> .

I guess I'll find out and report back . 

Thanks anyways .