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PASSWORD is unset by code-server

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, kubernetes, typescript
Domain
backend, devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the documented code-server command in the Dockerized Kubernetes environment, checking where the launched terminal environment is constructed. Trace the handling of PASSWORD and compare it with other environment variables; done means PASSWORD remains available in the code-server terminal without breaking existing authentication behavior.

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Description

bug
Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Chrome
  • Local OS: Windows 10
  • Remote OS: Ubuntu 20.04
  • Remote Architecture: amd64
  • code-server --version: v4.10.0
code-server: v4.10.0
Code: 1.75.1
Commit: 441438abd1ac652551dbe4d408dfcec8a499b8bf
Date: 2023-02-13T16:47:00.619Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/[125.0.0.0](http://125.0.0.0/) Safari/537.36
Steps to Reproduce
  1. Set an environmental variable PASSWORD in the docker environment
  2. Launch code server and open terminal
  3. echo $PASSWORD <- does not exist
Expected

My PASSWORD env var should still exist in the launched code-server terminal, like all of my other env vars set in an identical manner.

Actual

I have the PASSWORD environmental variable set for an unrelated tool. When I launch code-server, I no longer have that environmental variable set. Would it be possible to not unset it?

I launch code-server like this:

code-server /mnt/code --user-data-dir /mnt/code/.vscode --auth none --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8888 --extensions-dir ${HOME}/.local/share/code-server/extensions --disable-telemetry

And this is in a dockerized kubernetes container (lingo might be off...).

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Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

No, this works as expected in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

I saw this issue: https://github.com/coder/code-server/issues/6698 which isn't really the same but vaguely related.

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