On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 09:07:13PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 08 Feb 2019 at 10:08:49 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > By my problem definition, any thing in /home/user is not relevant as I > > > explicitly want something that affects all current and future users. > > > > Everybody, no matter what? > > > > pam_env can do that. > > > > PAM is the pluggable authentication module system, and controls > > all sorts of logins. > > > > man pam_env for instructions. > > Good point. And I notice that /etc/pam.d/lightdm talks about > > # Load environment from /etc/environment and ~/.pam_environment > session required pam_env.so readenv=1 > session required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale > > so experimenting with those files might be an idea. > > BTW I notice that /etc/security/pam_env.conf contains a line that can > *set* the PATH, but only contains "PATH", not "PATH=". So I'm afraid > the OP should be searching /etc for USER rather than USER=, even > though this will output a lot more noise. As already stated, PAM is an interesting alternative to the X11 path pursued in another fork of this thread: interesting mainly because it applies /also/ to other access --um-- paths to the computer (Linux console, ssh, (ugh!) telnet -- basically everything which eventually asks PAM for access permission). It is thus more "universal" than the X11 --um-- path. Cheers -- tomás
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