userhomepath

Platform agnostic user home directory path resolution for Node.js

While os.userInfo().homedir or os.homedir can give you the home directory for the current user, this module will give you the home directory for any user, including system users.

Install

npm install --save userhomepath

Usage

const { homedir } = require('userhomepath');
 
// find the home directory for user "luis", and log it to the console
homedir('luis').then(userPath) {
    // success
    console.log(userPath);
}).catch(error) {
    // error
    console.error("error: "+error.message);
});

The homedir function attempts to resolve the home directory of the given (case-sensitive, except on Windows) username. A homedirSync function is also provided, which blocks until the function finishes. If the user does not exist, or if the operation couldn't be completed, an exception is thrown. If the user exists, but does not have a home directory, null is returned. Upon success, a string containing the fully qualified path to the user's home directory is returned.

CLI

For testing purposes, I also included a cli:

# find the home directory for user "luis" 
userhomepath luis

License

MIT