Re: tramp fails for su when not having English prompt

[Michael Albinus]

Christian Faulhammer <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> A user reported a problem with tramp and su after an upgrade of
> Linux-PAM and libpwd in
> <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197444>.  We boiled it down
> to a problem with the prompt of su not being in English.  The regexp in
> tramp-password-prompt-regexp only catches English output, so calling
> su with LC_ALL=C works perfectly fine.

`tramp-password-prompt-regexp' is a user option intended for
customization. Localized prompts could be defined here.

However, the appended patch might solve the problem as well. Could
you, please, (let) test?

> V-Li

Best regards, Michael.

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--- /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el       Tue Oct 30 16:20:04 2007
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        (when (and p (processp p))
        (delete-process p))
        (setenv "TERM" tramp-terminal-type)
+       (setenv "LC_ALL" "C")
        (setenv "PROMPT_COMMAND")
        (setenv "PS1" "$ ")
        (let* ((target-alist (tramp-compute-multi-hops vec))