Reasons to want this ‘configurable’ is to match the rest of the system, as this
is one of the few remaining binaries that writes into ~/.cache
john@joran ~ ❯ tree .cache
.cache
├── motd.legal-displayed
└── upstart
As everything else already behaves:
john@joran ~ ❯ set | grep XDG_.*_HOME
XDG_CACHE
What is the actual use case for making the directory motd.legal-
displayed is written to configurable? This seems only to introduce the
risk of accidentally displaying the motd multiple times if the target of
$XDG_CACHE_HOME changes (or is unset), and as the file is a 0-byte stamp
file there shoul
** Tags added: xdg-user-dir
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motd-legal files don't respect XDG_CACHE_HOME
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/467300
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This would actually need to be changed in pam's pam_motd module. See
the patch: ./debian/patches-applied/pam_motd-legal-notice in the pam
source package.
I'm not volunteering to fix this, but I am triaging this bug and marking
it wishlist, if an enterprising ubuntu user/developer comes along with
