# Get remote\_user's home directory

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-remote-users-home-directory/14736>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-remote-users-home-directory/14736 "2014-03-09T17:25:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jordan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@Jordan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jordan1)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-remote-users-home-directory/14736/1 "2014-03-09T17:25:17Z")

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I have a playbook that installs oh-my-zsh:

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-remote-users-home-directory/14736/2 "2014-03-10T01:36:28Z")

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if you gathered facts as that user, it should be at: ansible\_env[‘HOME’]

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Morris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Adam\_Morris](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Morris)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-remote-users-home-directory/14736/3 "2014-03-10T02:39:23Z")

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You also have ansible\_user\_id which might be useful.

Adam