Code-server: Set up user accounts instead of coder

[Nosferican]

Description

We would like to specify a username to be used rather than the default coder. Is that something possible, and how?

Related Issues

This would also be a nice feature for implementing some of the auth methods.

[oonqt]

For now, no. If you're looking for other authentication options, you should look at integrating them into your reverse proxy. If you want just a basic auth w/ user & pass (assuming you're using nginx, not sure about apache), you can look into this guide
If you search google, you'll find that you can also implement other auth methods like Google OAuth, Github OAuth, etc. into Nginx

[Nosferican]

We'll experiment with NetBadge and possibly contribute docs. I imagine the working directory is also hardcoded as well rather than as an env variable, no?

[oonqt]

If by working directory you mean the default directory that code-server will open to, you can set that using the --data-dir argument

[sr229]

coder is the Unix user for our Docker container, if you wish to link your instances to a different user, I suggest creating another container with a different user, or use our binary and run it bare.