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A crate to help get the home directory of any user on a system.
Last release 1 years ago
28 Jun 2025
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 weeks to 10 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 6 of 6 stable releases
3 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
3 years old
9 releases · first in 2023
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Added rust-version to Cargo.toml .
rust-version to Cargo.toml.Refactored if let chains using Rust 1.88.0.
if let chains using Rust 1.88.0.Updated nix crate to latest version for compatibility.
nix crate to latest version for compatibility.A minor unsoundness hole existed in the method used to allocate SID buffers on Windows. Specifically, it was not checked that more than zero bytes wer
alloc was non-null.Mistake in the documentation of the windows-coinitialize feature.
windows-coinitialize feature.DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE -- THERE IS A VERY SMALL AND UNLIKELY UNSOUNDNESS HOLE IN THE WINDOWS VERSION
The crate did not compile if windows-coinitialize was not set (on Windows).
windows-coinitialize was not set (on Windows).DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE -- THERE IS A VERY SMALL AND UNLIKELY UNSOUNDNESS HOLE IN THE WINDOWS VERSION
GetHomeInstance on Windows, for caching purposes.
GetHomeInstance on Windows, for caching purposes.UserIdentifier.GetHomeError on Windows have been adapted to the new implementation.UserIdentifier type on Windows is now immutable.windows-sys dependency has been replaced with the windows crate, as windows-sysGetHomeInstance type on Windows to cache the IWbemServices interface for multipleget_home and get_my_home to home and my_home respectively.get_home_from_id, get_my_id, and get_id into the UserIdentifier type.wmi and serde dependencies have been removed.DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE -- THERE IS A VERY SMALL AND UNLIKELY UNSOUNDNESS HOLE IN THE WINDOWS VERSION
Documentation tests that would not compile now do.
The first release of this crate. Documentation for this version is available here .
The first release of this crate. Documentation for this version is available here.
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