CentOS - Oct 2015 - Re: Centos 6: language mess with ssh

When I connect through SSH to my Centos 6 box, language are mixed: 
connection is in english but password change dialog is in french. Example:


$ ssh aa at quercy
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Last login: Fri Oct 30 11:41:31 2015 from quercy
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changement de mot de passe pour l'utilisateur aa.
Nouveau mot de passe :
Retapez le nouveau mot de passe :
(Current) Password:
passwd : mise ? jour r?ussie de tous les jetons d'authentification.
Connection to quercy closed.


I tried: "LANG=C ssh aa at quercy" and I get the same mess.

Is it possible to get password change dialog in english ?
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Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:12, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE <bda at ...>
wrote:
> When I connect through SSH to my Centos 6 box, language are mixed:
connection
> is in english but password change dialog is in french. Example:
>
>
> $ ssh aa at quercy
> You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
> Last login: Fri Oct 30 11:41:31 2015 from quercy
> WARNING: Your password has expired.
> You must change your password now and login again!
> Changement de mot de passe pour l'utilisateur aa.
> Nouveau mot de passe :
> Retapez le nouveau mot de passe :
> (Current) Password:
> passwd : mise ? jour r?ussie de tous les jetons d'authentification.
> Connection to quercy closed.
>
>
> I tried: "LANG=C ssh aa at quercy" and I get the same mess.
>
> Is it possible to get password change dialog in english ?
Frist, the use of "LANG=C ssh aa at quercy" only sets the language of
the lokal ssh-client.

Either you add the "SendEnv LANG" line to your ~/.ssh/config
(or add [space]LANG to a existing "SendEnv" line)

or you can specify it as a option on the command line:

[code]
LANG=C
export LANG
ssh -o "SendEnv LANG" aa at quercy
[/code]

maybe "LANG=C ssh -o 'SendEnv LANG' aa at quercy" also works.

Note the 'export', in some environments LANG is not set at all,
there the export is needed, else it is only set for the shell,
and not for the called programs.

That way the ssh-client can tell the ssh-server on the other side
what language setting you want to have.

Atm, it looks like that the "LANG" is set to "fr_FR" or
similar
for the whole system "quercy", or just for the user "aa" in
his/her
.profile / .bash_profile / .bashrc / or other shell init file.

Another possibility is that settings of LC_* Have been messed with,
either local or on the machine you want to connect to.

If so, please set the "LC_ALL=C" add the "LC_ALL" to the
"SendEnv"
above, and be aware that the "oneliner" version will no longer work.

  - Yamaban.

Thank you for you help.

I tried your tips but the problem remains. Example:

$ echo "SendEnv LANG LC_ALL" > ~/.ssh/config
$ LANG=C; export LANG; LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
$ ssh aa at quercy
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Last login: Fri Oct 30 15:02:34 2015 from quercy
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changement de mot de passe pour l'utilisateur aa.
Nouveau mot de passe :
MOT DE PASSE INCORRECT : BEAUCOUP trop court

-- 
Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE
AIME - Campus de l'INSA                  http://www.aime-toulouse.fr/
135 av. de Rangueil	 		 T?l +33 561 559 885
31077 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 - FRANCE 	 Fax +33 561 559 870