I did make some changes to the above script to make it run 1) my $privilege = ""; 2) my $flags = ""

The appropriate action would be to remove these unused variables, not meaninglessly changing their value. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::NetAdmin qw( UserGetAttributes );

my $username = Win32::LoginName();

UserGetAttributes(
    "",
    $username,
    my $password,
    my $password_age,
    my $privilege,
    my $home_dir,
    my $comment,
    my $flags,
    my $script_path
)
    or die("UserGetAttributes: $^E\n");

print "The home dir for user $username is $home_dir\n";

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When I run the code, I get a zero-length string too. Going to Computer Management and peeking at my user, the home dir is indeed blank there. I set the home directory of a test user to c:\foo using Computer Management, and UserGetAttributes returned c:\foo. It's working fine.

the homedir is not seen in the result

Then it must not be set.

In reply to Re^3: Overlapped i/o operation by ikegami
in thread Overlapped i/o operation by kingjamesid

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