Locale problems on Solaris

[Dan Astoorian]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:49:46 EST, Ben Lindstrom writes:
> 
> 
> In --current one should just be able to put in do_setup_env() a:
> 
> 	read_environment_file(&env, &envsize, "/etc/default/init");

This may be a usable workaround, but it's the wrong solution.  Despite
appearances, /etc/default/init does NOT contain environment variables
(per se).  Aside from LANG and LC_*, it contains configuration for
/etc/init such as TZ and CMASK, which should not get folded into the
user environment.

It would be preferable to copy LANG, NLSPATH, and all variables
beginning with "LC_" into /etc/environment or $HOME/.ssh/environment.

If you want to fix it in sshd, you should do it by copying those
variables from the parent sshd process to the session, not be reading
/etc/default/init.

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