Bug 229102

Summary:	/etc/profile.d/lang.* override pre-existing LANG settings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Adams <linux>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	rvokal
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Fixed In Version:	8.50-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Chris Adams 2007-02-17 02:26:17 UTC

For a while now, the RHEL/FC OpenSSH packages have modified config settings to
pass locale variables between systems.  However, the unconditional sourcing of
/etc/sysconfig/i18n overrides this!  If a LANG is already set, it can be debated
if the user's ~/.i18n should be sourced, but the system file should not.

One reason that LANG from a remote system should not be changed is that LANG
encodes both a language and a character set.  I use en_US, but I am sometimes
logged in from a non-Linux system (Tru64 Unix) that doesn't support UTF-8, so I
use en_US.ISO8859-1.  There is no way for me to properly pass this right now
(having language and character set packed into one variable was probably not a
good idea to begin with; some things like man page caching don't really handle
it anyway, but oh well).

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2007-02-19 21:15:12 UTC

Do we send *all* LC_* variables?

Comment 2 Chris Adams 2007-02-19 21:19:28 UTC

/etc/ssh/ssh_config has:

SendEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES
SendEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
SendEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL

/etc/ssh/sshd_config has:

AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES
AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL

Obviously, if they aren't set, they aren't sent, but I think that covers them
all (if not I guess it would be a bug in the RHEL/FC OpenSSH config).

Comment 3 Chris Adams 2007-02-19 21:21:07 UTC

Checking the OpenSSH RPM changelog, this was added about a year ago in bugzilla
179851.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2007-02-19 22:23:39 UTC

Added in CVS, will be in 8.50-1. I suspect *something* will break.