Re: ~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-14 Thread Lars Nooden
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Jonathan Marsden wrote: What specifically makes you think changes to /etc/environment do not have any effect in Lubuntu Saucy? Can you provide a complete set of steps to reproduce, please? Make sure you log all the way out, or reboot, after making a change to it. I

Re: ~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-14 Thread Lars Nooden
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Jonathan Marsden wrote: no instead of relationship between them. I don't understand why you think there is. /etc/environment (and ~/.pam_environment) will be used (via PAM) whether or not .profile exists for the user concerned. One is executed by PAM, one is executed by

Re: ~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Jonathan Marsden wrote: no instead of relationship between them. I don't understand why you think there is. /etc/environment (and ~/.pam_environment) will be used (via PAM) whether or not .profile exists for the

~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-13 Thread Lars Nooden
I read that the help document on environment variables [1] points to ~/.pam_environment and /etc/environment as where to change variables. I notice that ~/.pam_environment is not present in Lubuntu (saucy) and that changes to /etc/environment do not have effect, even when removing ~/.profile

Re: ~/.profile vs ~/.pam_environment

2013-06-13 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Lars, On 06/13/2013 10:25 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: I read that the help document on environment variables [1] points to ~/.pam_environment and /etc/environment as where to change variables. I notice that ~/.pam_environment is not present in Lubuntu (saucy) and that changes to