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!

[susverwimp]

@nhooyr A possible use case would be that the code server is behind a oauth2 proxy server. To access the code server public url, one would need to login with an oauth2/oidc identity provider and a customizable logout button could be configured to remove the code-server-session/idp-session so that a user should login again with the idp before they can access the code-server again.

This is something I did before with https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

[zhz]

@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.

Same to me. I use code-server as a portable dev env while teaching in public classrooms . It's necessary to logout manually, closing browser does not work.

[jsjoeio]

Thanks for sharing that with us @zhz! I was waiting for #2648 to get merged in before picking this up so that we could make sure to add the proper e2e tests when this feature is added. Hoping to get to this soon!

[binaryfire]

+1 for this. Would be great to have as an option