** Description changed: The default /etc/pam.d/sshd configuration has: # Read environment variables from /etc/environment and # /etc/security/pam_env.conf. #auth required pam_env.so # [1] # In Debian 4.0 (etch), locale-related environment variables were moved to # /etc/default/locale, so read that as well. auth required pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale The default SSH client configuration has "Send LC_*" and the default SSH - server configuration has "Accept LC_*". This prevent any user locale - settings from being sent via SSH. + server configuration has "Accept LC_*". The PAM configuration prevents + any user-overrides for locale settings. For example, if /etc/default/locale has: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C Then running "LANG=zh_SG.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 ssh myspecialhost.foo.bar.com" yields: ubuntu@ip-10-12-15-243:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C (output truncated for clarity) While having a blank /etc/default/locale yeilds: ubuntu@ip-10-12-15-243:~$ locale locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=zh_SG.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 (output truncated for clarity) I think, although I am not sure, that this is a bug with the default configuration. It means that in order for server to accept multple languages or LC_* bindings, the system locale default would have to be unset. Effectively this is forcing the system default on all users.
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