Get a user's current directory

[Heiko Blume]

friedman at wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:

>In article <1990Dec21.184617.8685 at cs.widener.edu> brendan at CS.WIDENER.EDU (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>>  Towards even better system management, this will let you find out
>>what directories your users are sitting in.

>   I can't imagine why anyone would want to use this unless they are
>either incredibly nosy and have nothing better to do or they are so
>paranoid they should have their head examined. Better system
>management indeed. 

there is a need for that indeed. if you have lots of file systems
and users and you want to unmount one of the file systems for
backup etc you might get (i.e.) '/usr/local busy'. unless you can find out
who is using /usr/local you'll have fun asking all users to get off
of it.
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