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Some special characters in the password are not supported

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript

Research direction

The report names no source file or test entry point. Start by reproducing the login failure with supersecret^ from ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml, then trace password authentication and configuration parsing. Done means the password succeeds with the special character and a regression test or explicit password requirement documentation is added.

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Description

bug
Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Google Chrome
  • Local OS: Windows 11
  • Remote OS: Ubuntu 22.04 server
  • Remote Architecture: x86
  • code-server --version: 4.22.1
Steps to Reproduce
  1. Set the password as "supersecret^" in ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
  2. Restart code-server by running sudo systemctl restart code-server@$USER
  3. Login in code-server web using the password supersecret^.
  4. Expect that the password is incorrect.
Expected

The password is expected to be correct.

Actual

The password is incorrect.

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Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

This cannot be tested in GitHub Codespaces

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

If this is not a bug, it would be nice to make the password requirements explicitly indicated in the docs.

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