Code-server: Incorrect reporting in the terminal when custom password is used

[gerroon]

Hi

I am trying to set this up with password but it is not working out well

/opt/code-server/code-server --port=4000 --allow-http --disable-telemetry --password "MYPASS" -d /media/CODE

INFO  Starting webserver... {"host":"0.0.0.0","port":"4000"}
WARN  No certificate specified. This could be insecure.
WARN  Documentation on securing your setup: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/security/ssl.md
WARN  Launched without authentication.
INFO  Telemetry is disabled
INFO   
INFO  Started (click the link below to open):

As you see it is laucnhed without password, I tried variations on the password field without any luck.

I am on Debian Buster using code-server v1.1119-vsc1.33.1

[yujincheng08]

password is deprecated. Use environment variable PASSWORD instead.

[Josh-Uvi]

password is deprecated. Use environment variable PASSWORD instead.
@yujincheng08
how do you use the environment variable PASSWORD to replace --password to set the custom password. Perhaps, an example code would help. Thanks

[deansheather]

@Josh-Uvi env PASSWORD=test code-server

[deansheather]

@gerroon I just tried this and it looks like code-server incorrectly reports that it's launched without authentication when a password is supplied. I opened it in the browser and it does require a password.

[gerroon]

@deansheather

Thanks for check it out. I will give it a try. I did not think about thatg possibility to be honest,

[code-asher]

We only output the password when it's generated (since you already know the password). https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/286#issuecomment-474173109

[gerroon]

@code-asher sure but the message in the termianl is misleading. It does not have to show the password, but at least it can say the password is enabled instead of WARN Launched without authentication.

[code-asher]

Oh, right! I completely missed that part. Let's update the issue title to something like "Incorrectly reports as launching without authentication when using custom password".

[code-asher]

Thanks for the bug report; just pushed a fix. I'm gonna try to read issues (and comments!) more closely in the future, sorry about that. :stuck_out_tongue:

[antofthy]

I saw this problem too. Thought use of PASSWORD environment variable was broken because of it!
didn't get around to reporting it before this bug report appeared.