Coder SSH Not Respecting SendEnv & AcceptEnv?

On my local machine I have

# ~/.ssh/config
Host *
  SendEnv INSIDE_EMACS

# ~/.ssh/config
Host *
  SendEnv INSIDE_EMACS

And on my coder instance I have:

# /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Host *
  AcceptEnv INSIDE_EMACS

# /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Host *
  AcceptEnv INSIDE_EMACS

I restarted my computer and restarted the workspace instance. Inside my local terminal I run

export INSIDE_EMACS=y
coder ssh noah

export INSIDE_EMACS=y
coder ssh noah

Inside the remote terminal when I echo $INSIDE_EMACS the variable is empty. I know that Coder had a somewhat special SSH agent or something, is it possible that is interfering w the SSH env var setup?

13 Replies

Turtle KayakOP•3y ago

When I run ssh coder.noah the env var gets set correctly

Cian•3y ago

Is this in Coder OSS?

Turtle KayakOP•3y ago

Yes

maf•3y ago

coder ssh is not as fully featured as ssh coder.. We don't parse ~/.ssh/config, for instance. If we would add support for sending env vars, it'd probably be coder ssh --env or something similar (perhaps ENV variable support as well).

Cian•3y ago

That's a good point -- do you see this behaviour only with coder ssh, or do you see it with both ssh coder.XXX and coder ssh XXX ?

Turtle KayakOP•3y ago

This behavior only happens when I use coder ssh . Using ssh coder... works correctly. On a similar note I'm seeing a lot of latency in remote development (access the server takes a while for file operations). I might try to expose an ssh port or make a vpn and just use raw SSH to see if the coder agent traffic forwarding is the cause.

Phorcys•3y ago

yes, it's not the same thing coder ssh doesn't actually use the ssh config, bottom line is: use ssh coder.whatever doubt, it's pretty speedy for me but you could still check

Turtle KayakOP•3y ago

Yea I am not so sure myself bc some ssh based remote dev solutions are fast and some are slow

Phorcys•3y ago

@Turtle Kayak btw, you can use /resolve to close the thread when/if you're done

Turtle KayakOP•3y ago

Oh cool thanks

Phorcys•3y ago

except the bot is down for some reason i'll look into it

Turtle KayakOP•3y ago

Lmao ofc Nw

Phorcys•3y ago

should be good now

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