"Open in VS Code" doesn't work if settings.json is not writeable

[john-shaffer]

Bug description

"Open in VS Code" requires write access to the User settings.json.

I manually added the "remote.SSH.defaultExtensions" config to my settings.json, but I cannot add the path to the SSH config because it changes each time. It would be fine if I could set a consistent path to the SSH config.

Steps to reproduce

Click "Open in VS Code".

Workspace affected

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Expected behavior

It should work without having to write to my config files.

Example repository

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Anything else?

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[axonasif]

Thanks for raising! Our ide-team will be updating the connection method of VS Code desktop soon to direct SSH without any helper program, hopefully this should resolve the issue. Please see

• Epic: VS Code Desktop GA #7184

[loujaybee]

Thanks @axonasif, yeah the more specific issue for SSH gateway integration is here: #8513. I'm going to close this one, as it appears almost as a duplicate of: #5889, which should also be fixed by #8513... let's use that one to track this issue. Thanks for raising @john-shaffer 🙏