Localization of pam messages

[Dan Yefimov]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Ali Corbin wrote:

> I'm running pam-0.99.5.0-5.fc5, which has been i18nalized, but I can't
> figure out how to get it to use another language.
> 
> I've tried setting LANG, and LINGUAS, and LC_MESSAGES and LC_ALL, on
> the command line, in ~/.bashrc, in /etc/bachrc and in
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n, all to no avail.   And when I dump out the
> environment at the top of the pam stack, I get nothing.  So it seems
> that my environment is getting cleared somewhere along the way.
> 
> So how does one go about getting pam to localize?
> 
AFAIK, PAM is localized like any ordinary application or library. Note however 
that getty (and hence login), sshd, etc are spawned without parsing 
/etc/sysconfig/i18n and hence are not localized.
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    Sincerely Your, Dan.