Terminal does not load user paths or env variables

[tvarwig]

• code-server version:1.32.0-245
• OS Version: Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Custom binary paths are not loading from the users .profile or /etc/profile on ubuntu. For example, I have go installed on the ubuntu machine. In my ~/.profile, I have the path to export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH. On a standard ssh terminal the go binary loads. The terminal in VSCode does not load any custom paths. I have to run source ~/.profile. This has to be done on each load of a new terminal.

Steps to Reproduce

1. go -- Output Command 'go' not found,
2. source ~/.profile
3. go version -- Output: go version go1.12 linux/amd64

[sr229]

hey @tvarwig, was this running on your own user, yes?

[tvarwig]

@sr229 Yes as a non root user

[sr229]

FWIW it should load that properly since its user shell bound. Was this in Docker or a bare installation?

[tvarwig]

Bare installation with systemd on Ubuntu 18.04. I have the User=myusername under System. The terminal says mysername@myhostname:.

[bketelsen]

systemd doesn't get your environment. You need to use the Environment or EnvironmentFile directives to set environment variables. Quick (probably foolish) hack would be to env > myenv then add EnvironmentFile=/path/to/myenv which would get the currently set environment variables. Beware, that might be a security risk.

[tvarwig]

@bketelsen thank you for the information. I assummed since the terminal in VSCode loaded with my username the envirnment would like like the desktop app.

[alexfornuto]

Sorry to comment on such an old thread, but it's the closest I've found to a solution for myself. @bketelsen, could you expand on how someone using code-server as a system service could modify the daemon to use the user's environment?

Context: My instance of code-server is secured via an identity-aware proxy, so I'm not worried about the security risk. The values in my $PATH are different between the terminal in code-server and the one I get from an SSH session.