On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 07:25:06PM +0200, goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote: > Someone on irc complained that xdm doesn't parse /etc/enviroment. Getting hysterical about this issue now won't change the fact that potato is releasing in a few days WITHOUT a change to this behavior. Just sourcing /etc/environment like a shell script is wrong. However, individual users may customize /etc/X11/Xsession (or /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession) to do this. I used to source /etc/environment from Xsession. Pedants hounded me to death until I removed it. So argue with them, not me. The right way to do it is to PAMify xdm to use the pam_env.so module. And no one has done that yet, particularly not Red Hat, who claimed to have "PAMified" xdm. Do not monkey with the severity of this bug. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk around branden@debian.org | on the Moon?" http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | "Because they were wearing heavy boots."
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