Post PVE 7 to 8 issue: pam_env(sshd:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled

[anvilcom]

I've been seeing this in my logwatch reports since upgrading from PVE 7 to 8. Looks like a known issue at Debian. Several bug reports there - bugs 1018106, 1018260 and 1030119. I wasn't seeing these errors prior to the upgrade. Here's a link to one of them:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1018106

Removing `user_readenv=1` from the line below located in /etc/pam.d/sshd seems to solve the warning but I'm not sure of the impact to the nodes.

# In Debian 4.0 (etch), locale-related environment variables were moved to
# /etc/default/locale, so read that as well.
session required pam_env.so user_readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale

Any opinion or comments from the Proxmox staff/devs?

 

[Folke]

Hey,
we are not using the $HOME/.pam_environment file, so removing that option should have no effect at all on your installation.
But in the long run, this problem will need to be fixed upstream, since we are only repackaging anything, if there is a really really good reason for it.

 

[anvilcom]

Thanks Folke!