Re: Locale setup for non-shells
On 05/22/2017 01:30 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 12:46 +0300, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> 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.
It seems that the current owner of /etc/locale.conf, systemd, describes the
format quite strictly, and it is suitable:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/locale.conf.html
I'll try to reach systemd folks about this. Perhaps they'll have a different
idea.
Nick
On 05/22/2017 01:30 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
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