Bug#1018106: re: sshd: pam_env(sshd:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled

[Richard van den Berg <richard@vdberg.org>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 04:43:07 -0500 nick black <dankamongmen@gmail.com> wrote:
> the cause of this output is the following line in /etc/pam.d/sshd:
>
> # In Debian 4.0 (etch), locale-related environment variables were 
moved to
> # /etc/default/locale, so read that as well.
> session required pam_env.so user_readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
>
> i'm guessing from the comment that user_readenv=1 is in place
> primarily to allow overrides of the default locale?

Indeed. Removing "user_readenv=1" from that line fixes the warning.

> etch was
> quite some time ago, possibly preceding support for SendEnv?
> that seems sufficient workaround if user_readenv is deprecated,
> but this is all speculative.

The comment for etch is about "envfile=/etc/default/locale" which is 
read regardless of the user_readenv setting. See the man page for pam_env.

Kind regards,

Richard van den Berg