On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:37:23PM -0800, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> Darren Tucker wrote:
> > Cynthia K MULLIS wrote:
> >> When I ssh to a server, the locale information is set to "C" regardless
> >> of the settings in the /etc/default/init.
> >
> > OpenSSH's sshd does not parse /etc/default/init, so unless your shell
> > does then you won't see them.
> >
> > I don't know what normally parses it on Solaris, but if it's a PAM
> > module then enabling PAM might help.
>
> It's parsed by "init", oddly enough ;-)
Ah, right. That would make sense :-)
> If you change /etc/default/init, you need to reboot (sadly, there is no
> way to get init to re-read the config file). Then init will have the new
> settings, and all children of init will inherit them.
OK, but unless you have sshd spawned out of inittab that still won't help
much.
> I haven't looked at the source to see if sshd will pass said environment
> along to its children or not.
It doesn't, but it's not hard to make it do so, eg:
Index: session.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/src/security/openssh/cvs/openssh/session.c,v
retrieving revision 1.349
diff -u -p -r1.349 session.c
--- session.c 23 Oct 2006 17:01:56 -0000 1.349
+++ session.c 24 Jan 2007 01:18:13 -0000
@@ -1024,6 +1024,15 @@ do_setup_env(Session *s, const char *she
free_windows_environment(p);
}
#endif
+ {
+ char *var, *val, *localevar[] = { "LANG", "LC_CTYPE",
+ "LC_NUMERIC", "LC_TIME", "LC_COLLATE", "LC_MONETARY",
+ "LC_MESSAGES", "LC_ALL", NULL };
+
+ for (i = 0; (var = localevar[i]) != NULL; i++)
+ if ((val = getenv(var)) != NULL)
+ child_set_env(&env, &envsize, var, val);
+ }
#ifdef GSSAPI
/* Allow any GSSAPI methods that we've used to alter
--
Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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