Log out button

[vwxyzjn]

Description

I couldn’t find a way to logout of the code server once logged in to the code-server

The following docker command was used to host the code-server

docker run -it -p 127.0.0.1:8443:8443 -v "${PWD}:/home/coder/project" codercom/code-server --allow-http --no-auth

This functionality is kind of important to me as sometimes I have to use different machines temporarily. Is there by chance a way for me to logout? Thanks a lot.

Related Issues

[deansheather]

We currently don't have a logout mechanism that I know of.

In the meantime, you can logout of code-server by deleting the password cookie. This cookie should also be deleted when you restart your browser as it's a session cookie (at least on my machine). If you want to logout everywhere, you can change the server password and every device will prompt you to login again.

[vwxyzjn]

Closing the browser indeed log me out of the code-server. Thanks!

[bbrendon]

For me, closing Chrome does not logout so instead I'm using an Incognito browser.

[bwnstck]

deleting the cookie helps ... but why not implementing a logout feature?

[nhooyr]

Why do you need to log out?

[nhooyr]

Sorry I guess that's a dumb question. I can see the security advantages for sure and it really doesn't make sense we don't have this so I'm reopening.

[nhooyr]

Perhaps File -> Log Out?

[vwxyzjn]

@nhooyr Thats how I imagined it originally 😆. I guess I do have a use case. As a Teaching Assitant, sometimes I get annoyed with students’ editor and wanted to do some formatting using vscode server but then want to log out.

[bwnstck]

Perhaps File -> Log Out?

I would put somewhere at the top-level, so people can find it directly. Under or above GoHome makes sense to me :)

I attached a screenshot so folks can imagine the menustructure!