PAM_GETENV(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet pam_getenv — aka PAM_GETENV(8) if we're being all formal — from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew. Its whole thing? Get environment variables from /etc/environment. Periodt. 🫶

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

pam_getenv [-l] [-s] env_var

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This tool will print out the value of env_var from /etc/environment. ✨

It will attempt to expand environment variable references in the definition of env_var, but it will fail if PAM items are expanded. 😭 no cap.

The -l option indicates the script should return an environment variable related to default locale information.

The -s option indicates that the script should return a system default environment variable.

Currently neither the -l or -s options do anything. They are included because future versions of Debian may have a separate repository for the initial environment used by init scripts and for system locale information. These options will allow this script to be a stable interface even in that environment. Future-proofing queen 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie! This beauty comes from Debian GNU/Linux, dated 2026-07-16, and it lives under PAM_GETENV(8). bye bestie, go get those env vars 💅🎀