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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is misleading. The syntax for envfile is "VARIABLE=value" pairs,
whereas the syntax for user_envfile is that of pam_env.conf ("VARIABLE
[DEFAULT=[value]] [OVERRIDE=[value]]"). The documentation leaves to be
desired in that regard, but reading the code confirms that the two files
are parsed and interpreted in different manners.

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Title:
  Incorrect syntax when writing to ~/.pam_environment

Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  While investigating bug #1662031, I found out that /usr/share
  /language-tools/save-to-pam-env writes to ~/.pam_environment using an
  incorrect syntax: "VARIABLE=value" on each line. The expected syntax
  is "VARIABLE [DEFAULT=[value]] [OVERRIDE=[value]]" (man pam_env.conf).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: accountsservice 0.6.42-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Oct  9 06:57:17 2017
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-02 (463 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  SourcePackage: accountsservice
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-06-04 (126 days ago)

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