[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#469917: Bug#469917: libpam-thinkfinger: Not load locale configure from /etc/default/locale

[Luca Capello]

Hello!

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:12:45 +0100, zigler zang wrote:
> For I am a chinese user of debian, I set my default locale in
> /etc/default/locale as:
>
> cat /etc/default/locale
> LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE="zh_CN:zh"
>
> and I login to X system with xdm.
> If I login with a password, the locale should looks like:
> LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh
> LC_...="zh_CN.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=""
>
> While if I login with thinkfinger, the locale becomes:
> LANG=""
> LANGUAGE="POSIX"
> LC_...="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=""
>
> It seems like that thinkfinger would not read configures from
> /etc/default/locale.

I'm not sure this is a ThinkFinger bug: I can reproduce it on my sid
with xdm_1:1.1.6-4, but not with login_1:4.1.0-2 nor gdm_2.20.3-2.

Since I'm going to install a KDE system to check bug #466322 [1], I'll
report back the situation with kdm.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/466322
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