Re: /etc/environment not available for normal user while for root it is[was Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers]

[Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Le quartidi 14 floréal, an CCXXIII, Avinash Sonawane a écrit :
>> I am using Jessie with XFCE.
>
> Look in /etc/pam.d/ if there is a file related to xfce and its display
> manager.

$ ls /etc/pam.d
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   235 Sep 30  2014 atd
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   384 Nov 20 02:11 chfn
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    92 Nov 20 02:11 chpasswd
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   581 Nov 20 02:11 chsh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1208 May  2 19:24 common-account
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1221 May  2 19:24 common-auth
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1480 May  2 19:24 common-password
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1189 May  2 19:24 common-session
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1154 May  2 19:24 common-session-noninteractive
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   606 Oct 26  2014 cron
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    69 Sep 17  2014 cups
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1298 Nov  5 02:31 lightdm
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1308 Nov  5 02:31 lightdm-autologin
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   437 Nov  5 02:31 lightdm-greeter
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  4756 Nov 20 02:18 login
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    92 Nov 20 02:11 newusers
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   520 Aug  9  2014 other
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    92 Nov 20 02:11 passwd
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   255 Nov 28 14:39 polkit-1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   168 Sep 20  2014 ppp
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   143 Mar 30 03:59 runuser
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   138 Mar 30 03:59 runuser-l
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2133 Mar 23 05:02 sshd
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2257 Nov 20 02:11 su
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    95 Mar 12 08:59 sudo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   220 Apr 16 21:22 systemd-user
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   108 Oct 15  2014 xscreensaver

I think I am using lightdm as display manager/login manager. (Any way
to find out which is?)
And in lightdm, lightdm-autologin and lightdm-greeter I see:

# Load environment from /etc/environment and ~/.pam_environment
auth      required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale

> If there is, check that pam_env.so is invoked.

Apparently pam_env.so is alreadu being invoked.

> If it is not, add it
> by imitating another file that does it right (xdm for example)

I really have no idea which file to add. <n00b here!>

> and file a
> bug report.

Where?

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Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
PICT, Pune
http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com