On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:41:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.0948 +0100]: > > /etc/environment is read by the pam_env.so PAM module. If you don't > > have > > > > auth required pam_env.so > > > > in whichever /etc/pam.d/* correspondes to your login system.
My /etc/pam.d/login does have that line (uncommented even). That was the one clue I saw about how /etc/environment is used. Is there no documentation anywhere (linux documentation I mean, as opposed to AIX documentation :-)? /etc/environment isn't even mentioned in the pam man-page, and I don't have any pam info in /usr/share/doc... Well later I'll try google "Linux-PAM system administrator's guide" (this name mentioned in the pam man page) and see what turns up. Just now I have to get back to work. > > I used gdm, which supports pam... not sure if xdm does. If it doesn't, > > then /etc/environment won't work for you. > > but why did the /etc/environment trick fix my Perl complaining about > locales? but then, i can't find that debian-user post which solved it > for me, and i can't reproduce the perl problems. oh well... Maybe I happen to have the "in-between" distro that has the "new" /etc/environment, before they started sourcing /etc/environment from /etc/X11/Xsession (I'm guessing that they might have changed the system to do this)? I assume you have a distro dated after 2.2R2. Everyone does :-) Also maybe you start X from your console after logging in, in which case your X processes would inherit your environment which has been initialized properly from your console login. Or maybe they changed xdm logins to use the real login (with pam). Indeed, I just tried a login to xdm, and nothing shows up in auth.log. How can I make my xdm login use pam? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the GNU age! http://www.gnu.org
