How to fetch a home directory or user name of a remote system

Asked Dec 20 '17 at 06:50

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I know that I can get the local user name and home directory by the command

System.getProperty("user.name")

and

System.getProperty("user.home")

I would like to know if there are any commands available in java to obtain a remote system's user name and home directory.

edited Dec 20 '17 at 07:20

vinS

asked Dec 20 '17 at 06:50

@meditat no,he is under a different IP – Dec 20 '17 at 07:01
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define "a remote system", what kind of access do you have? – ryenus Dec 20 '17 at 07:22
Possible duplicate of [How to get the remote user's username in java](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25031746/how-to-get-the-remote-users-username-in-java) – Sanal S Dec 20 '17 at 07:48

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