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RFC 4256, "Generic Message Exchange Authentication for the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)", January 2006

Source of RFC: secsh (sec)
See Also: RFC 4256 w/ inline errata

Errata ID: 1678
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Frank Cusack
Date Reported: 2009-02-03
Verifier Name: Pasi Eronen
Date Verified: 2009-02-16

Section 3.2 says:

   The language tag is deprecated and SHOULD be the empty string.  It
   may be removed in a future revision of this specification.  Instead,
   the server SHOULD select the language used based on the tags
   communicated during key exchange [SSH-TRANS].

   If the language tag is not the empty string, the server SHOULD use
   the specified language for any messages sent to the client as part of
   this protocol.  The language tag SHOULD NOT be used for language
   selection for messages outside of this protocol.  If the server does
   not support the requested language, the language to be used is
   implementation-dependent.

It should say:

   The language tag MAY be the empty string.  If acceptable/preferable
   languages were communicated during key exchange [SSH-TRANS], or in
   the SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST message, the language tag SHOULD be the
   language selected by the server for the SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST
   message.

Notes:

As originally pointed out by Alfred Hoenes (errata ID 758), this text
was incorrectly copy-pasted from Section 3.1.

The Information Request is sent from the server to the client, and it
already contains strings that make use of the particular
language/locale. The language tag in this message specifies the
language/locale used for building the 'instruction' and 'prompt'
strings in the request. This parallels the use of the language tag
in, e.g., the Disconnection Message of the SSH Transport Layer
Protocol.

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