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Enter-PSSession Error

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing Enter-PSSession with the listed PSReadLine, macOS, PowerShell, VS Code, and PowerShell extension versions. Verify that password entry works normally and that remote debugging succeeds afterward; no source file or test is named in the issue.

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Description

Area-ReadLine Issue-Bug OS-macOS

PSReadLine 2.0.0
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
PowerShell v6.1.0-preview.2
VS Code 1.24.0
PowerShell extension: 1.7.0-insiders-557

Enter-PSSession prompts twice for a password without giving chance to enter anything, and then fails due to lack of password.

If you ctrl+v+enter quick enough, it does authenticate, but then remote debugging fails.

This should be easy to recreate, but let me know if you'd like logs.

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