man: explicitly mention that environment.d/ cannot be used to set the…#29801
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… service manager's own env block Fixes: systemd#29414
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| exclusively the environment blocks passed to the services it manages. Environment variables set that way | ||
| thus cannot be used to influence behaviour of the service manager. In order to make changes to the | ||
| service manager's environment block the environment must be modified before the user's service manager is | ||
| invoked, for example from the system service manager or via a PAM module.</para> |
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@poettering Isn't this false? We have systemd-user.conf(5)'s ManagerEnvironment= setting. Should that be mentioned here?
EDIT: I use this feature with #26675 to set ManagerEnvironment=XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=%h/.hostconfig/%H:/etc/xdg and it does work as intended to extend the user service search path.
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… service manager's own env block
Fixes: #29414