On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:53:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:17:45PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > When several fellow hackers are maintaining a server, but have > > different tastes when it comes to editing tools, they may start > > unending flame wars and even come to blows. > > > > To bring peace in such a work environment, I suggest applying one > > minor yet essential change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config from: > > AcceptEnv LANG LC_* > > to > > AcceptEnv LANG LC_* EDITOR > > Why not just make that change locally? It's a configuration file for a > reason. I added the locale variables there because some programs > misbehave if they're unset or don't match the terminal, but I'm > reluctant to start adding more variables with lower impact; I think it > would get out of hand very quickly.
I suggested to make this change globally because it sounds like a good practice, plus since I do a lot of sysadmining professionally I'd rather avoid doing it on each and every hundred of boxes/templates I'll setup over the next couple years : And because that was quite a fun bugreport to submit :) -- Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org