How to get the user's home directory in Unix if I know the username?

I have a problem to determine a user's home directory in Solaris system.
for example, I know the username as "smith", how can I know smith's
home directory (the absolute path string)? pls help me...

if the user is the one running the program, you can always get the home directory using System.getProperties ("user.home");
If you are trying to get the properties of another user, you could try using setProperties to change the user name first, before getiting the home directory, but it probably won't work because of the security manager. You could read the /etc/passwd file and parse the path out, but once again, the user of the code would have to have appropriate permission.

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