thegushi
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2 years ago Speaking specifically to the "GSSAPI" problem, what I'd use if I were writing my own wrapper would be to look at the output of klist, and if it exited non-zero, I'd set PasswordAuthentication no on the command args passed to git.
Because VS code has already shipped with commands, it makes it harder for me to write my own wrapper.
It would be useful if there were a settings knob that allowed me to insert my own "shims" and conditionals, aside from the VS code ones.
gushi@blackfooted-33 ~ % klist
Credentials cache: API:17AD76EA-4C95-4056-B540-F15DDB5573CB
Principal: gushi@REALM.ORG
Issued Expires Principal
Oct 1 17:01:36 2022 Oct 2 03:01:31 2022 krbtgt/REALM.ORG@REALM.ORG
gushi@blackfooted-33 ~ % echo $?
0
gushi@blackfooted-33 ~ % kdestroy
gushi@blackfooted-33 ~ % klist
klist: Cache not found: API:4491B499-CD15-4327-A6F6-9ABF59C8910D
gushi@blackfooted-33 ~ % echo $?
1
gushi@blackfooted-33 ~ %
This could potentially be several separate features, but I want to describe my use case.
I am on a system where we can use GSSAPI (passwordless kerberos authentication, similar to an SSH key), or a password. GSSAPI must be re-initialized periodically by typing a password using a command like kinit to renew your kerberos ticket on your machine. (A similar example, separate from kerberos, may be to consider an ssh agent where the key is periodically removed from the running agent if not used).
Using a password is reasonable on the command line for a single fetch/push. However, in the background, the repeated password failures generated by VSCode cause our security systems to think that a password is being hammered.
The line between where vs code calling git calling ssh are hard to discern here. Setting up a credentials helper does not feel like the correct answer because I do not want to change my behavior when git is used anywhere other than by VS code, when the git command is in the background. (This affects both autofetch and commands invoked by the gui like 'git push'.)
VS Code is already trying to set some kind of git-askpass variable, that is presumably important to it working.
I don't have a good understanding of what environment variables vscode sets in the session before it runs, that I could test on.
Potential solutions:
in the "output" window it appears as though ssh is still prompting for a password -- if there's no controlling terminal for git, ssh should not ask for a password. (Or it should cause VS code to ask for one)
In the event that a password is required for ssh, and VS code does prompt the user for it interactively it should disable background fetching until the user attempts a manual fetch, rather than repeatedly failing.
The command output that I get when I try to do a manual fetch gives me an error dialog that says: "Git: hint: Pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent branches is" -- the true error is not shown. Perhaps the LAST lines of the output should be shown. Perhaps lines starting with "hint:" should be stripped.
My full output is:
Document better the environment variables that vs code sets. (Does the non-interactive terminal have the same vars as the interactive one?)
Document better how git and vs code handle password prompting. For example, I see my (interactive) terminal has the following:
But I can't find any documentation as to what those things do or how they're used. If they're supposed to be prompting me for a password somehow, they're not doing it. I also cannot tell if the non-interactive terminal used by git fetch has the same options.
The first one is a four line shell script to call a javascript:
The second is a hard-to-read 'webpacked' javascript, clearly [ahem] optimized by removing the pesky whitespace that I'm not going to paste here.