title: How to I retrieve the home directory of a user
body: <p>let's say I have a service that has a pillar-configured user associated with it
  now I want to fetch a tar.gz and put it in this user home directory...
  how do I do that...</p>
  
  <p>user.info return a bunch of data including the home directory.. but how do I get only that ?</p>
  
  <p>iow </p>
  
  <pre><code>foo:
    archive:
      - extracted
      - name {{ &lt;get the user home directory here&gt; }}
  ...
  </code></pre>