* Tomasz Kłoczko said: > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Rene H. Larsen wrote: > > > Ahh, this is very nice--I'm not very well versed in all this PAM > > > stuff, but it seems that the pam_env module takes care of most of my > > > concerns. The only unsolved problem seems to be X sessions, since xdm > > > isn't PAMified yet. We'll need to either PAMify xdm or use the "set -a" > > > trick in /etc/X11/Xsession when /env/environment is sourced. > > > > gdm is pamified, and works with pam_env > > But remember that on RH /etc/profile.d/* are not only for setting up > enviromet variables (look at mc for example). Yeah, the alias for preserving the output path. But the whole idea is broken - if it's gonna be a standard way to pollute the environment, we'll soon end up with each user's env being well over several KB. marek
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