Hi everyone on systemd-devel, I'm trying to solve a problem of supplying locale settings to non-shell programs acting as login shells in Fedora and RHEL, as described below.
So far it seems the Debian way of doing things will work. Could you please confirm that the format of locale.conf is not going to change in a way incompatible with what pam_env.so expects? The pam_env.so manpage: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/pam_env.8.html The locale.conf manpage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/locale.conf.html Also, am I missing anything? Is there another way systemd can help here? Thank you. Nick On 04/04/2017 06:06 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
Hi everyone, At the moment users logging into Fedora on a text terminal (console, SSH, etc.) get their locale environment variables (LANG, LC_ALL, etc.) set up by the shell they use. I.e. the shell ultimately sources the /etc/locale.conf file. This works fine in most cases. However, if the user has his/her "shell" set to any program that is not one of the traditional shells, i.e. it doesn't source any shell profiles, or even doesn't understand any shell language at all, then that program doesn't get locale settings. Theoretical examples can include captive portals on jump-hosts, or special-purpose systems with dedicated TUI instead of a shell. A practical example that concerns me is a user session recording program [1] which needs to run before user shell, and intercept all I/O going to and from the terminal. I would like to know if it is possible to change Fedora to provide the locale variables through the environment user "shell" inherits, instead of expecting it to read /etc/locale.conf, which is distro-specific. This is done in Debian already. During session setup in login/sshd/etc. they use pam_env to read /etc/default/locale. Similar thing is possible to do in Fedora too. E.g. just put this into /etc/pam.d/system-auth: session required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/locale.conf Nick [1] Tlog - terminal I/O logger https://github.com/Scribery/tlog _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
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