Code-server: How to set password for v2 ?

[chankruze]

Is password configuration broken in latest 2.preview.11-vsc1.37.0-linux-x86_64 ?

[lodos2005]

set password export PASSWORD=123456
and pass argument code-server --auth password

[cloonix]

No, the "export PASSWORD=" option is not working anymore.

[code-asher]

The PASSWORD environment variable should work. What's the output
of code-server when you set the environment variable and run it
with --auth password?

[chankruze]

It shows the generated password. On next line it says to set PASSWORD environment variable which is already set. I also set export PASSWORD=mypass in ~/.bashrc.

I can confirm this is not working anymore. I tried the july build which is working fine.

[code-asher]

Curious. If you haven't already, could you try setting it inline
just to make sure there's nothing strange going on? For example:

PASSWORD=mypass code-server --auth password

[chankruze]

Setting it inline worked..
Strange, the same didn't worked on aws !

$ PASSWORD=mypass ./code-server --auth password
info  Server listening on http://localhost:8080
info    - Using custom password for authentication
info    - Not serving HTTPS

[chankruze]

man export PASSWORD= is also working. Oh my god, i was stupid to use AWS, aws is shit, it close ssh in every 5 minuts, it made me think v2 code server is broken, it stops my node js server after some hours. I am not going back to aws.

$ export PASSWORD=mypass
$ ./code-server --auth password
info  Server listening on http://localhost:8080
info    - Using custom password for authentication
info    - Not serving HTTPS

Also setting that in profile or ./bashrc is working.

conclusion
Always check on local machine before opening an issue

[cfi2017]

man export PASSWORD= is also working. Oh my god, i was stupid to use AWS, aws is shit, it close ssh in every 5 minuts, it made me think v2 code server is broken, it stops my node js server after some hours. I am not going back to aws.

$ export PASSWORD=mypass
$ ./code-server --auth password
info  Server listening on http://localhost:8080
info    - Using custom password for authentication
info    - Not serving HTTPS

Also setting that in profile or ./bashrc is working.

conclusion
Always check on local machine before opening an issue

that sounds like some misconfiguration on your part. ec2 instances are usually very stable.

[KyleFromOhio]

This is the only thing that worked for me.

In systemd service script, add ...
EnvironmentFile=/etc/environment

In /etc/environment ...
PASSWORD="yourpasswordhere"

[Harrypotterrrr]

Thanks for @code-asher 's answer, but I do think the previous version, that is offering to initialize the password at the first login is better.

[code-asher]

code-server will still generate a password if you don't provide one, is that what you mean?