On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:54:48PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well.... does this perhaps deserve it's own manpage? At least if it's > not deprecated? This would make sense to have as a symlink to the pam_env manpage. Feel free to file a bug report against libpam-modules. > Some init-scripts on my system merely use it as a location for the local > settings, e.g. console-screen.sh, keymap.sh and pcscd, overriden > by /etc/defaults/locale: > [ -r /etc/environment ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/environment" > [ -r /etc/default/locale ] && ENV_FILE="/etc/default/locale" > #then sourcing it somehow > One of Debian's derivates has some nice specification: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#System-wide% > 20environment%20variables This overlooks the fact that /etc/environment is only used by PAM sessions. (The use of it for locale information is definitely deprecated, and will probably be phased out over the next release or so. And I have no idea what pcscd is doing with this file; daemons should speak C, the user's language is not guaranteed to be the same as the sysadmin's.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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