On Mon, 22.05.17 19:36, Nikolai Kondrashov (Nikolai.Kondrashov@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 05/22/2017 04:46 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 22.05.17 14:11, Nikolai Kondrashov (Nikolai.Kondrashov@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Which services precisely are running these PAM sessions? > > > > Note that explicitly importing /etc/locale.conf should be entirely > > unnecessary: systemd reads that anyway and adds it to the environment > > of all services it spawns. > > > > I am pretty sure instead of readding this to the env block through PAM > > it should just stay in place anyway, and simply be inherited > > down. Hence, I'd claim that the services setting up the PAM session > > are simply too eager in cleaning up the environment and should be > > fixed to leave LANG= and LC_*= in the environment passed to activates sessions. > > > > > 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? > > > > The syntax described in the man page is unlikely to change. I have no > > idea about the format pam_env expects though. > > > > And I can only recommend fixing the services in question instead of > > taping over the issue with pam_env... > > Thanks for your prompt response, Lennart! > > I'm talking about logins on console now, so I assume the service in question, > technically, is systemd-logind. However, I found out that it's working OK, and > the real problem is these two pieces in /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service: > > # Unset locale for the console getty since the console has problems > # displaying some internationalized messages. > Environment=LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME= LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY= LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER= LC_NAME= LC_ADDRESS= LC_TELEPHONE= LC_MEASUREMENT= LC_IDENTIFICATION= > > and > > ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noclear %I $TERM > > What the first one does is obvious, and the second needs to be modified to > make login preserve the environment. Like this: > > ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o "-p -- \u" --noclear %I $TERM > > Do you think the two pieces above can be changed to let the locale environment > through? Yes, I think that would make sense to do. Could you file an issue asking for that on systemd github? (or even better: a PR implementing it!) https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/new Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
