Hey Kees-

I must admit that I don't entirely grasp the scope of the issue you're
raising with /home living on a networked filesystem (sorry).

 * Is your concern a security one, where a malicious user gaining access to the 
network file server could potentially inject badness in various users ~/bin?
 * Or is it a performance concern, in that we're adding a search in PATH on a 
remote filesystem?
 * ...?

In the mean time, I have a simple, one-line patch that adds ~/bin to the
end of the initial PATH definition in /etc/environment.

Depending on Kees' explanation of his concerns, I can add some
additional logic to libpam-modules.postinst to affirm that no user's
~bin is on a networked filesystem at /etc/environment creation time.

:-Dustin


** Attachment added: "pam.64064.debdiff"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15442148/pam.64064.debdiff

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would be nice to add ~/bin to the default PATH
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64064
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