[Bug 145380] Re: pam_env should document per-user environment file ~/.pam_environment more clearly

[Andrey Bondarenko]

You may be interrested in discussion in upstream mailing list
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/pam-developers/2011-June/000075.html.

There is a chance that in future versions the issue will be fixed
upstream, but some backward incompatible changes may occur. The upcoming
patch will introduce both user_env and user_conf files, but disables
them by default. Currently available version 1.1.4 still reads
.pam_environment as conf file.

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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.

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