Tapping into the environment just before user shell starts

[Zucca]

So my quest is to be able to run some commands (shell script) and export user specific environment variables just before user shell starts. So sh/bash profile/rc scripts are out.

I've been using pam_exec to perform some XDG temp dir initializations before user shell starts, but I cannot export environment variables from there, since the pam_exec will exit (lose all the exported variables) and then the parent process will exec user shell.
My solution has been to use custom /etc/security/pam_env.conf, which does allow to set per user environment variables.
Then problem is, that if I make this into a package, it cannot simply override /etc/security/pam_env.conf, so I'd need a separate config file, but pam_env does not have any pam_env.d -like directory to support drop-in configs.

I'm making this so that I could simply install "fully seatded" system (meaning no systemd-logind or elogind) to my other boxes without too much touching of config files.

Thanks in advance.
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[flexibeast]

This is relevant to my interests. :-) Including possibly expanding the "Configuring a system without elogind" and "Seatd" pages on the wiki.

Firstly: are you only wanting to set XDG_* variables? If so, perhaps pam_xdg might do what you need?

More generally, the pam_env(8) man page says that, apart from using pam_env.conf (or an alternate file as specified),

[Zucca]