[Bug]: code-server (run with docker) will always overwrite PATH variable

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

• Remote OS: Ubunu
• Remote Architecture: amd64
• code-server --version: both v4.7.0 and v4.0.1 are tried

Steps to Reproduce

1. In a machine with docker installed, run

   mkdir -p ~/.config
   docker run -it --name code-server -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
   -v "$HOME/.config:/home/coder/.config" \
   -v "$PWD:/home/coder/project" \
   -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
   -e "DOCKER_USER=$USER"  -e "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/some/path" \
   codercom/code-server:latest
   

2. Login to the browser, launch terminal in vscode and print the PATH echo $PATH
3. Always get:

Expected

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/some/path with some extra paths appended by code-server.

Actual

/usr/lib/code-server/lib/vscode/bin/remote-cli:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

Logs

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Screenshot/Video

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Does this issue happen in VS Code or GitHub Codespaces?

• I cannot reproduce this in VS Code.
• I cannot reproduce this in GitHub Codespaces.

Are you accessing code-server over HTTPS?

• I am using HTTPS.

Notes

Though I checked I am using HTTPS, but I actually running locally without HTTPS. I checked it because it is a must and I think HTTPS has nothing to do with the issue.

[code-asher]

I tried the same thing with debian:11 (this is what code-server is based on) and reproduced:

coder@my-dev2:~/docker$ docker run --rm -e "PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/some-path" -it debian:11 bash
root@25b75f4f2da6:/# printenv PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/some-path
root@25b75f4f2da6:/# bash -lc 'printenv PATH'
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

In /etc/profile there is this:

if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi

So this could be the cause of the problem.

[benz0li]

I am not familiar with it. It seems I cannot customize in the demo- mode.

No. But see https://github.com/b-data/jupyterlab-python-docker-stack#run-container

---

Adapted to your example:

docker run -it --name jupyter-code-server \
  -u root \
  -p 8888:8888 \
  -v $PWD:/home/$USER \
  -e NB_USER=$USER \
  -e NB_UID=$(id -u) \
  -e NB_GID=$(id -g) \
  -e CHOWN_HOME=1 \
  -e CHOWN_HOME_OPTS=-R \
  -e PATH=/opt/TinyTeX/bin/linux:/opt/quarto/bin:/opt/code-server/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/some/path \
  registry.gitlab.b-data.ch/jupyterlab/python/scipy

ℹ️ Run the command in an empty directory so that the container populates it.
👉 -e CHOWN_HOME=1 and -e CHOWN_HOME_OPTS=-R is only required at first run.