[Bug 251795] Re: /etc/environment PATH should not have quotes

[Steve Langasek]

This behavior has persisted in /etc/environment now for at least 3
years, with only one report of misbehavior as a result.  I don't believe
it's worth the effort to try to correct this now and risk getting
inconsistent behavior on upgraded vs. newly-installed systems,
especially as pam_env, which owns /etc/environment, *does* parse out the
quotes from variable assignments.

If something else is reading /etc/environment directly, bypassing
pam_env, and parsing it differently than pam_env itself does, then as
Colin says, this is a bug in that component.  I'm therefore reassigning
this bug report to the krb5 package, as this needs to be fixed in krb5
-rsh-server.

** Package changed: pam (Ubuntu) => krb5 (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  /etc/environment PATH should not have quotes