Hi Christoph,

Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > This means that the shell may output things meant for login shell usage
> > like site-notices and other stuff. If installed on such a system,
> > debian-security-support's message contains additional output which is
> > not meant to be in that message.
> > 
> > See e.g. http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc for details about
> > what is sourced in which case.
> 
> While this might not have been the best choice, it was the only
> solution I found where the locale information was not reset so i18n is
> working as expected

I see. I actually expected it to be not on purpose, but happened by
habit. Feel free to retitle the bug report accordingly and/or change
its severity.

> In other words, running the program as unprivileged user already
> caused a lot of grief in the past and appearently the nightmare hasn't
> ended yet. So I am ---><--- that close to drop the idea of security
> aware programming and happily execute the program as root.

.oO( Which would also get rid of the tons of messages in
     /var/log/auth.log when installing or upgrading packages. But then
     again that was the reason why I already noticed the effort to not
     run it as root. And appreciated it. :-)

                Regards, Axel
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