How not to pass the locale through an ssh connection command

Solution 1:

It sounds like your SSH client is configured to forward the locale settings. You can prevent this by altering your configuration (the global file is typically /etc/ssh/ssh_config):

# comment out / remove the following line
SendEnv LANG LC_*

Alternatively you can change the configuration of the server, by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the remote machine (note the d in sshd_config):

# comment out / remove the following line
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

Solution 2:

As already explained in other answers, the client will send all environment variables specified via SendEnv in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. You can also force ssh to not send already defined variable names, using your user's configuration.

From OpenSSH man page:

It is possible to clear previously set SendEnv variable names by prefixing patterns with -. The default is not to send any environment variables.

So, to prevent sending your locale, you can put the following into your ~/.ssh/config:

SendEnv -LC_* -LANG*

Solution 3:

In short:

$ touch ~/.ssh/config
$ ssh -F ~/.ssh/config your_user@your_host

See this answer for details.

Solution 4:

Accepted answer is correct, but, if you don't want to change your config files, you can override specific locale on the command line

LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" ssh [email protected]