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[Mihai Capotă <mihai@xxxxxxxxx>]

The URL of the old upstream discussion has changed:
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/pam-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/GK7PNA3ZBNJMI2LJFAAKXZZ23L2QMW52/

The man page in Ubuntu 14.04 documents .pam_environment as an environment file:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man8/pam_env.8.html

The Ubuntu Community Help Wiki documents the syntax of .pam_environment as a mixture of configuration and environment syntaxes:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables#Session-wide_environment_variables

This mixed syntax works in Ubuntu 14.04. This is not reflected in the
man page, so I think this bug is still valid.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145380

Title:
  pam_env should document per-user environment file ~/.pam_environment
  more clearly

Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  pam_env reads /etc/environment. An alternate file which is parsed
  after /etc/environment should be possible: ~/.environment. This would
  follow the exact same rules as /etc/environment. Functionally it would
  be as if it was concatinated to /etc/environment.

  This would require pam_env to be in the PAM stack at a point suitable
  for ~ to be available. Which seems doable to me.

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