[Bug 18574] Re: /etc/environment lacks man page.

[Michael Kerrisk]

The point here is that /etc/environment is a pam_env(8) thing. The
pam_env(8) page documents /etc/environment, but users can't easily
discover that information. There needs to me a man page "link" ,
environmen(5), that points to pam_env(8). I filed this report to get
that fixed:

https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ticket/55

** Bug watch added: fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ #55
   https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ticket/55

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Title:
  /etc/environment lacks man page.

Status in manpages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There's no environment(5) man page.  No package seems to own it.

      $ dpkg -S /etc/environment
      dpkg: /etc/environment not found.
      $ cat /etc/environment
      LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
      LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
      $

  Without a man page, it's unclear what purpose it has, e.g. at what times
  is it read, and what format it has, e.g. are comments allowed, what
  about quoting, etc.

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