AcceptEnv LANG LC_* vs available locales

Jochen Bern Jochen.Bern at binect.de
Thu Apr 28 16:53:32 AEST 2022


On 27.04.22 21:48, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>> Maybe you should consider to add some guidelines about how to handle
>> locales into a README within the openssh source package, or in
>> ssh_config(5), sshd_config(5), etc.?
> 
> Pretty easy: handle them on the server, period. There’s no way to
> do it otherwise.

Sure, because "have server setting blindly trump clients'" is *so* much 
better than "have client setting forwarded blindly to the server".

And here I thought that, after OpenVPN painstakingly retrofitting one 
into their data channel setup, "when you need an agreement, you need an 
explicit negotiation phase" would be a commonly accepted tenet now ...

(As in, *let* the client send his settings, then have the shell's 
startup phase run a helper application that edits the env vars as 
necessary to achieve compatibility with the server's capabilities.)

Regards,
-- 
Jochen Bern
Systemingenieur

Binect GmbH
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