The URL of the old upstream discussion has changed: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/pam-develop...@lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/GK7PNA3ZBNJMI2LJFAAKXZZ23L2QMW52/
The man page in Ubuntu 14.04 documents .pam_environment as an environment file: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man8/pam_env.8.html The Ubuntu Community Help Wiki documents the syntax of .pam_environment as a mixture of configuration and environment syntaxes: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#Session-wide_environment_variables This mixed syntax works in Ubuntu 14.04. This is not reflected in the man page, so I think this bug is still valid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pam in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145380 Title: pam_env should document per-user environment file ~/.pam_environment more clearly Status in pam package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: pam_env reads /etc/environment. An alternate file which is parsed after /etc/environment should be possible: ~/.environment. This would follow the exact same rules as /etc/environment. Functionally it would be as if it was concatinated to /etc/environment. This would require pam_env to be in the PAM stack at a point suitable for ~ to be available. Which seems doable to me. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/145380/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp