Comment 5 for bug 47958

I seem to be having the same problem with _my_ lifestyle... :-(

I'd given up on per-user env vars for awhile, but I'm now installing a new computer so I'm having another go.

I tested ~/.pam_environment:
PAT OVERRIDE=${PATH}
PATH OVERRIDE=/home/alan/bin:${PATH}

and this happens [on console login]:

alan@singularity:~$ set|grep ^PAT
PAT=/home/alan/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

so it seems PATH gets set to what I told it to, PAT gets set based on that value (despite being earlier in ~/.pam_environment), then something else unsets it. And it's not just ssh-agent doing it, because it happens even if I remove the openssh-client package.