Bug#330420: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330420: login: Breaks system-wide maildir spools

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh at debian.org):
> > Package: login
> > Version: 1:4.0.12-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Recent changes to login appear to have killed login.defs support for
> > maildir.  The comments in login.defs do not reflect that. 
> > 
> > For a maildir tree at /var/mail/<user>/, we get MAIL=/ when the user logins.
> > 
> > pam.d/login has noenv specified for the mail pam module.
> 
> That seems to be the problem. We certainly need to remove the "noenv"
> directive from the pam_mail line in the default login PAM
> configuration file:

What will userdel do, then? If it will do something stupid, it needs to be
fixed as well.  In fact, I don't understand the reason for breaking maildir
support in login at all

noenv must be removed from pam_mail in *all* PAM profiles, including sudo,
ssh, (and added to su's most probably).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh