AcceptEnv LANG LC_* vs available locales

Harald Dunkel harald.dunkel at aixigo.com
Thu Apr 28 15:30:25 AEST 2022


On 2022-04-27 21:48:07, 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.
> 

I would love to, but please see this:

	https://bugs.debian.org/965323
	https://bugs.debian.org/952516

Anyway, the idea is to add an official statement like Ingo's

	"SendEnv LANG LC_*" is a terrible idea

into the source files to take influence upon the package managers.


Regards

Harri


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