Andrei POPESCU grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Mi, 09 ian 13, 11:32:02, David Guntner wrote: >> and then an "echo $MAIL" it has the correct value. It's almost like >> somehow logging in via the KDM manager (again, haven't tested with GDM >> since I don't use Gnome, so I don't know if the problem is repeatable >> there), it misses that part of the PAM authentication/setup or otherwise >> just doesn't bother to pass that variable along. So I ultimately did >> have to create a file in /etc/profile.d that sets $MAIL and exports it. >> Now, even when logging in directly to the GUI, "echo $MAIL" shows what >> it should. :-) > > kdm, gdm and friends user their own pam configuration. You probably want > to adjust /etc/pam.d/kdm as well. Ah! Didn't notice those. :-) Added the appropriate line to the kdm file (since that's what I use for display management; not worried about the others), and sure enough, it all works now without having to resort to a file in /etc/profile.d that manually sets the variable. Thanks! --Dave
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