Bug#330843: Re. Problem encountered with openssh-server/pam on sid after dist-upgrading

[Tom Mahieu <tom.mahieu@gmail.com>]

This bug has nothing to do with ssh and can be worked around by touching

/etc/environment

if it does not exist.

See also bug nr. 330852 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ 
bugreport.cgi?bug=330852 )
A recent patch from the debian maintainers forced the pam_env module  
to read /etc/environment by default.  This appears to be a problem  
when the file does not exist.