pam 0.99

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:59:50AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Kees Cook 
> 
> | On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 06:45:50PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> | > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:18:30PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> | > > Does anyone (Mithrandir?) remember why we're carrying the per-user
> | > > .pam_environment file patch?  That was the most extensive to port to the
> | > > new code (the other Ubuntu changes were pretty trivial).
> | > 
> | > I think this was low-hanging fruit added during the implementation of
> | > one-true-path.  It isn't essential functionality.
> 
> I disagree, I think it's quite important for a user to be able to set
> environment variables which take effect no matter how they log in.
> (This means ~/.{zsh,bash}rc isn't suitable, nor is ~/.gnomerc.)

I think it's *useful*, but I don't think it's *important*, as this
functionality has traditionally been missing from UNIX-like systems.

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 - mdz