[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#547079: login: Should set the iutf8 tty c_iflag if the locale is utf8
Nicolas François
nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Tue Mar 23 14:09:51 UTC 2010
tags #539354 help
thanks
Hello,
As I have no clue about TTY setup, let see if I can get some other
opinions on debian-devel.
The question raised on http://bugs.debian.org/547079 is who shall be
responsible for setting up the user's tty (e.g. regarding UTF-8 handling).
Some defaults are in the kernel.
getty makes some changes, login also, and the end user may also do so in a
user profile script.
The kernel, getty, or login do not really know if the user wants a UTF-8
locale, so my preference would be to move the setup of the iutf8 tty
c_iflag to the user's configuration. For example the user could use
unicode_start / unicode_stop.
(This also has the advantage for me not to require any change in login)
The bug discusses also these alternatives:
2 iutf8 tty c_iflag forced by getty (maybe based on an option in inittab)
(currently getty always drop this flag)
3 iutf8 tty c_iflag forced by login
(I did not really understand how login shall guess when this shall be
done, maybe an option in /etc/login.defs)
4 iutf8 tty c_iflag forced by a PAM module
Do you have any opinion on how this should be done?
Thanks in advance,
--
Nekral
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:35:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 17 September 2009 19:59:14 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger, le Thu 17 Sep 2009 19:30:02 -0400, a écrit :
> > > > > login/pam are there to do authentication only, not screw with the
> > > > > terminal.
> > > >
> > > > Login already does screw with the terminal in setup_tty(),
> > >
> > > presumably enough to prevent echoing of the password, but that's about it
> > > (for obvious security reasons).
> >
> > Have you looked at the code before saying that?
> >
> > /*
> > * Add your favorite terminal modes here ...
> > */
> > termio.c_lflag |= ISIG | ICANON | ECHO | ECHOE;
> > termio.c_iflag |= ICRNL;
> >
> > etc...
>
> looks like a lot of stuff login shouldnt be doing, but historically has been
> so no one complained because "it worked". extending poor behavior because
> it's already there isnt really a good line of reasoning.
>
> > > i dont have a fedora box myself, but from talking to a friend, things
> > > "just work" in the default setup. or at least it defaults everything
> > > to unicode.
> >
> > Did he check whether stty -a properly shows iutf8? Things work very
> > fine even without it, one of the very few effects of iutf8 left cleared
> > is the bug I mentioned in my report: canonical mode's treatment of
> > backspace. People rarely notice it.
>
> i didnt ask him "hey does your keyboard work", i asked him what his settings
> were after he logged in. so of course i validated the stty output.
>
> i'm not suggesting everything is great and nothing needs to be changed. i'm
> saying that login/pam is not really part of the solution.
> -mike
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