Terminal does not load user paths or env variables

• 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

[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.

[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.