Applied for my next Debian upload, thanks. Sorry for the delay - I needed to check the source rather closely to make sure this had no unintended side-effects, since I recall this being complicated in the past. But it looks as though this is in fact an otherwise-harmless simplification of the path that PAM environment data takes through sshd.
** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952185 Title: ~/.pam_environment not parsed by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/952185/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs