Bug: Environment vars are changed before use (locale LANG, LC_*)

[Carsten Wieschiolek]

Thanks Damien

This was a very valuable reply. With this I could tackle the problem.
Maybe this info could be added to the man page?

With Best Regards
Carsten


Am 03.03.2014 18:53, schrieb Damien Miller:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Carsten Wieschiolek wrote:
>
>> Hi Damien!
>>
>> Thanks for the friendly reply!
>>
>> I did a few more tests to investigate the matter further based on
>> your comments. The bottom line is, that the settings from the file
>> "environment" in the .ssh directory are not considered at all. The
>> values from the calling SHELL have precedence over the entries in the
>> file, which makes the file quite useless. Am I overlooking something
>> important?
> The order is something like:
>
> 1. Environment variables passed by SendEnv/AcceptEnv
> 2. Environment variables specified by pam_env
> 3. ~/.ssh/enviornment
> 4. Environment variables set by the shell
>
> (I might have #2 and #3 reversed here)
>
> #1, #2 and #3 all prepare the environment that the shell is executed with,
> so naturally anything the shell does will overrride them. 
>
> As for how to fix it. One way is to rename the environment variables
> and then have your shell initialisation put them back. E.g.
>
> preferred_LANG=en_AU:en
>
> in ~/.ssh/enviornment, and
>
> test -z "$preferred_LANG" && LANG="$preferred_LANG"
> export LANG
>
> in your shell initialisation.
>
> -d
>