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.
Cheers,
David.
