Package: libpam-modules
Version: 1.0.1-4+b1
Followup-For: Bug #502114
I'm having a similar problem to the OP -- the value of MAIL is not set
in the environment if /etc/pam.d/login is tweaked with dir=<mail-dir>
in the settings for pam_mail:
dawit...@webserver:~$ echo $MAIL
dawit...@webserver:~$ cat /etc/pam.d/login
#
# The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `login' service
#
[snip]
# Prints the status of the user's mailbox upon succesful login
# (Replaces the `MAIL_CHECK_ENAB' option from login.defs).
#
# This also defines the MAIL environment variable
# However, userdel also needs MAIL_DIR and MAIL_FILE variables
# in /etc/login.defs to make sure that removing a user
# also removes the user's mail spool file.
# See comments in /etc/login.defs
session optional pam_mail.so standard dir=~/Maildir
[snip]
Bummer. Workaround is to set a value for MAIL manually, in ~/.bashrc
for example.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc6.081130.webserver.uvesafb (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libpam-modules depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-11 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries
libpam-modules recommends no packages.
libpam-modules suggests no packages.
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