Salt: Question: usage of jinja-variables in salt-cmd.shell command

[asymetrixs]

Description of Issue/Question

I am trying to get the home directory of a certain user in a salt-state.

Setup

{% set USER = 'theuser' %}
[... user creation in Linux ...]
{% set HOME = salt["cmd.shell']("getent passwd {{ USER }} | cut -d: -f6 ") %}

unfortunately HOME is empty, I expected it to be something like /home/theuser.

Is there correct/another way to do it?

Versions Report

2018.3.2

[Ch3LL]

heres a way to do it with salt's user execution module:

{% set home_dir = salt['user.info']('ch3ll') %}
echo {{ home_dir['home'] }}:
  cmd.run

[asymetrixs]

Thanks, this works as required:

{% set USER = 'theuser' %}
{% set USERINFO = salt['user.info'](USER) %}
{% set HOMEDIR = USERINFO['home'] %}