diff --git a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixSystemPropertiesSupport.java b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixSystemPropertiesSupport.java
index 0de2a84f767a..a93cd35ff9f0 100644
--- a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixSystemPropertiesSupport.java
+++ b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixSystemPropertiesSupport.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 import com.oracle.svm.core.graal.stackvalue.UnsafeStackValue;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.jdk.SystemPropertiesSupport;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Limits;
-import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Unistd;
 
 public abstract class PosixSystemPropertiesSupport extends SystemPropertiesSupport {
@@ -43,14 +42,14 @@ public abstract class PosixSystemPropertiesSupport extends SystemPropertiesSuppo
 
     @Override
     protected String userNameValue() {
-        Pwd.passwd pwent = Pwd.getpwuid(Unistd.getuid());
-        return pwent.isNull() ? "?" : CTypeConversion.toJavaString(pwent.pw_name());
+        String name = PosixUtils.getUserName(Unistd.getuid());
+        return name == null ? "?" : name;
     }
 
     @Override
     protected String userHomeValue() {
-        Pwd.passwd pwent = Pwd.getpwuid(Unistd.getuid());
-        return pwent.isNull() ? "?" : CTypeConversion.toJavaString(pwent.pw_dir());
+        String dir = PosixUtils.getUserDir(Unistd.getuid());
+        return dir == null ? "?" : dir;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixUtils.java b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixUtils.java
index c3480e594c31..b81462d2b43d 100644
--- a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixUtils.java
+++ b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/PosixUtils.java
@@ -24,10 +24,13 @@
  */
 package com.oracle.svm.core.posix;
 
+import static com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Unistd._SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX;
+
 import java.io.FileDescriptor;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 import org.graalvm.nativeimage.Platform;
+import org.graalvm.nativeimage.StackValue;
 import org.graalvm.nativeimage.c.struct.SizeOf;
 import org.graalvm.nativeimage.c.type.CCharPointer;
 import org.graalvm.nativeimage.c.type.CIntPointer;
@@ -47,13 +50,18 @@
 import com.oracle.svm.core.c.libc.LibCBase;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.graal.stackvalue.UnsafeStackValue;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.headers.LibC;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.memory.NullableNativeMemory;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.nmt.NmtCategory;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Dlfcn;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Errno;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Locale;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Signal;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Time;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Unistd;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Wait;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd.passwd;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd.passwdPointer;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.darwin.DarwinTime;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.linux.LinuxTime;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.thread.VMOperation;
@@ -335,4 +343,49 @@ public static int clock_gettime(int clock_id, Time.timespec ts) {
         }
     }
     // Checkstyle: resume
+
+    public static String getUserName(int uid) {
+        return getUserNameOrDir(uid, true);
+    }
+
+    public static String getUserDir(int uid) {
+        return getUserNameOrDir(uid, false);
+    }
+
+    private static String getUserNameOrDir(int uid, boolean name) {
+        /* Determine max. pwBuf size. */
+        long bufSize = Unistd.sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX());
+        if (bufSize == -1) {
+            bufSize = 1024;
+        }
+
+        /* Retrieve the username and copy it to a String object. */
+        CCharPointer pwBuf = NullableNativeMemory.malloc(WordFactory.unsigned(bufSize), NmtCategory.Internal);
+        if (pwBuf.isNull()) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        try {
+            passwd pwent = StackValue.get(passwd.class);
+            passwdPointer p = StackValue.get(passwdPointer.class);
+            int code = Pwd.getpwuid_r(uid, pwent, pwBuf, WordFactory.unsigned(bufSize), p);
+            if (code != 0) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            passwd result = p.read();
+            if (result.isNull()) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            CCharPointer pwName = name ? result.pw_name() : result.pw_dir();
+            if (pwName.isNull() || pwName.read() == '\0') {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            return CTypeConversion.toJavaString(pwName);
+        } finally {
+            NullableNativeMemory.free(pwBuf);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/headers/Pwd.java b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/headers/Pwd.java
index 9d627b263243..8a685fdc4979 100644
--- a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/headers/Pwd.java
+++ b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/headers/Pwd.java
@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ public interface passwdPointer extends Pointer {
         passwd read();
     }
 
-    @CFunction
-    public static native passwd getpwuid(int __uid);
-
     @CFunction
     public static native int getpwuid_r(int __uid, passwd pwd, CCharPointer buf, UnsignedWord buflen, passwdPointer result);
 }
diff --git a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/jvmstat/PosixPerfMemoryProvider.java b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/jvmstat/PosixPerfMemoryProvider.java
index fffe6ebe1034..8398ce162f37 100644
--- a/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/jvmstat/PosixPerfMemoryProvider.java
+++ b/substratevm/src/com.oracle.svm.core.posix/src/com/oracle/svm/core/posix/jvmstat/PosixPerfMemoryProvider.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 import static com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Fcntl.O_NOFOLLOW;
 import static com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Fcntl.O_RDONLY;
 import static com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Fcntl.O_RDWR;
-import static com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Unistd._SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX;
 
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
@@ -61,21 +60,17 @@
 import com.oracle.svm.core.jvmstat.PerfManager;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.jvmstat.PerfMemoryPrologue;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.jvmstat.PerfMemoryProvider;
-import com.oracle.svm.core.memory.NullableNativeMemory;
-import com.oracle.svm.core.nmt.NmtCategory;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.os.RawFileOperationSupport;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.os.RawFileOperationSupport.RawFileDescriptor;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.os.VirtualMemoryProvider;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.PosixStat;
+import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.PosixUtils;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Dirent;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Dirent.DIR;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Dirent.dirent;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Errno;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Fcntl;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Mman;
-import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd;
-import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd.passwd;
-import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Pwd.passwdPointer;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Signal;
 import com.oracle.svm.core.posix.headers.Unistd;
 
@@ -111,7 +106,7 @@ public ByteBuffer create() {
         }
 
         int vmId = Unistd.getpid();
-        String userName = getUserName(Unistd.NoTransitions.geteuid());
+        String userName = PosixUtils.getUserName(Unistd.NoTransitions.geteuid());
         if (userName == null) {
             return null;
         }
@@ -150,43 +145,6 @@ public ByteBuffer create() {
         return DirectByteBufferUtil.allocate(mapAddress.rawValue(), size);
     }
 
-    private static String getUserName(int uid) {
-        /* Determine max. pwBuf size. */
-        long bufSize = Unistd.sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX());
-        if (bufSize == -1) {
-            bufSize = 1024;
-        }
-
-        /* Retrieve the username and copy it to a String object. */
-        CCharPointer pwBuf = NullableNativeMemory.malloc(WordFactory.unsigned(bufSize), NmtCategory.JvmStat);
-        if (pwBuf.isNull()) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        try {
-            passwd pwent = StackValue.get(passwd.class);
-            passwdPointer p = StackValue.get(passwdPointer.class);
-            int code = Pwd.getpwuid_r(uid, pwent, pwBuf, WordFactory.unsigned(bufSize), p);
-            if (code != 0) {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            passwd result = p.read();
-            if (result.isNull()) {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            CCharPointer pwName = result.pw_name();
-            if (pwName.isNull() || pwName.read() == '\0') {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            return CTypeConversion.toJavaString(pwName);
-        } finally {
-            NullableNativeMemory.free(pwBuf);
-        }
-    }
-
     private static String getUserTmpDir(String user, int vmId, int nsPid) {
         String tmpDir = Target_jdk_internal_vm_VMSupport.getVMTemporaryDirectory();
         if (Platform.includedIn(Platform.LINUX.class)) {