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authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 17:53:41 -0800
committerSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>2019-01-03 18:17:08 -0800
commit212b52cf29c06cc209bc8ac0540dbab1acdf1464 (patch)
tree58da0bf39f5c4122e4a1b4da20fdeea52b97a671 /modules/pam_env/README
parent9c52e721044e7501c3d4567b36d222dc7326224a (diff)
parent56c8282d128fb484ffc77dff73abf42229b291d3 (diff)
New upstream version 1.1.0
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diff --git a/modules/pam_env/README b/modules/pam_env/README
index 81c63154..6d52bc1b 100644
--- a/modules/pam_env/README
+++ b/modules/pam_env/README
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PAM_ITEMs such as PAM_RHOST.
By default rules for (un)setting of variables is taken from the config file /
etc/security/pam_env.conf if no other file is specified.
-This module can also parse a file with simple KEY=VAL pairs on seperate lines
+This module can also parse a file with simple KEY=VAL pairs on separate lines
(/etc/environment by default). You can change the default file to parse, with
the envfile flag and turn it on or off by setting the readenv flag to 1 or 0
respectively.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ conffile=/path/to/pam_env.conf
debug
- A lot of debug informations are printed with syslog(3).
+ A lot of debug information is printed with syslog(3).
envfile=/path/to/environment
@@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ readenv=0|1
Turns on or off the reading of the file specified by envfile (0 is off, 1
is on). By default this option is on.
+user_envfile=filename
+
+ Indicate an alternative .pam_environment file to override the default. This
+ can be useful when different services need different environments. The
+ filename is relative to the user home directory.
+
+user_readenv=0|1
+
+ Turns on or off the reading of the user specific environment file. 0 is
+ off, 1 is on. By default this option is on.
+
EXAMPLES
These are some example lines which might be specified in /etc/security/