On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 12:46 +0300, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Do you think the below could be done, from PoV of PAM/authconfig? I do not have any problem with this if the locale.conf file is really in format that is accepted by pam_env. > On 04/04/2017 06:06 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > > 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 -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb (You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
