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Re: no /etc/environment



On Saturday 12 January 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> I installed sid (armel) to a thecus, and the installed system has no
> /etc/environment, which isn't really a problem, except:
>
> Jan 11 21:54:43 turtle sshd[17587]: pam_env(ssh:setcred): Unable to open
> env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory
>
> So, localechooser used to create it .. what should be responsible for
> creating the file now that it doesn't need to? I'm thinking about an
> empty file with just a header comment pointing at environ(7) or so.

This also came up not too long ago [0] and Steve suggested adding the file 
in pam somewhere (probably libpam-modules), but with roughly the same 
content. No idea what the status of that is.

Steve?

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/442049

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