Problem with SSH connection from windows

[kefniark]

What happened?
Getting some issue when trying to setup a dev environment, even with basic quickstart example (like nodejs).

• Devpod desktop installed on my local windows 11
• The docker is hosted on a ubuntu server 23.04
• Both connected through ssh provider

Provisioning the container and using vscode web work both fine 👍
But when I try to connect to the devcontainer through ssh or use VSCode, it fails 😢

$ ssh test-nodejs.devpod
/bin/sh: line 0: exec: C:DevPoddevpod-cli.exe: not found
kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Looks like there is a path somewhere that struggle between / and \\ and I end up with neither.

I use gitbash and both windows or linux path are supported, C:\\DevPod\\devpod-cli.exe or /c/DevPod/devpod-cli.exe are both valid path and point to the same file, but out of the box devpod seems to try guessing and get it wrong.

Is there a way to update this path? Maybe an env variable or a settings ?
even just using devpod-cli.exe should works, it's in the PATH.

Local Environment:

• DevPod Version: 0.4.2
• Operating System: windows
• ARCH of the OS: AMD64

DevPod Provider:

• Local/remote provider: ssh

[pascalbreuninger]

hey @kefniark, thanks for opening the issue. We'll look into it, looks like yet another path conversion issue indeed

[butonic]

I noticed similar problems when trying to ssh into a remote kubernetes pod from Windows. devpod uses C:\Program Files\DevPod\devpod-cli.exe in the .ssh/config file:

Host my-kubernetes.devpod
  ForwardAgent yes
  LogLevel error
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  ProxyCommand C:\Program Files\DevPod\devpod-cli.exe ssh --stdio --context default --user vscode my-kubernetes
  User vscode

The ProxyCommand should be quoted like

Host my-kubernetes.devpod
  ForwardAgent yes
  LogLevel error
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  ProxyCommand "C:\Program Files\DevPod\devpod-cli.exe" ssh --stdio --context default --user vscode my-kubernetes
  User vscode

Which allows connecting but then copying the the vscode server seems to hang:

...
[00:13:05.544] Checking ssh with "C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe -V"
[00:13:05.578] > OpenSSH_for_Windows_9.2p1, LibreSSL 3.6.2

[00:13:05.581] Checking ssh with "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe -V"
[00:13:05.624] > OpenSSH_9.4p1, OpenSSL 3.1.2 1 Aug 2023

[00:13:05.627] Expecting scp to be next to ssh at C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\scp.exe
[00:13:05.627] Testing scp with "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\scp.exe"
[00:13:05.664] scp exited with code: 1
[00:13:05.664] Got stderr from scp: usage: scp [-346ABCOpqRrsTv] [-c cipher] [-D sftp_server_path] [-F ssh_config]
           [-i identity_file] [-J destination] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option]
           [-P port] [-S program] [-X sftp_option] source ... target
[00:13:05.666] Copying file to remote with "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\scp.exe" "vscode-server.tar.gz" "vscode-server.tar.gz.done" "my-kubernetes.devpod":"/home/vscode/.vscode-server/bin//0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2"
[00:13:05.666] Using cwd: file:///c%3A/Users/jfd/AppData/Local/Temp/vscode_server_1704409985455
[00:13:05.666] Terminal shell path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe
[00:13:06.049] >  
...
[00:22:03.310] > 
...

anyway, one thing at a time.

[nmartins]

Still experiencing this issue in 0.5.2
`[10:12:00.660] Log Level: 2
[10:12:00.666] VS Code version: 1.86.1
[10:12:00.666] Remote-SSH version: remote-ssh@0.108.0
[10:12:00.666] win32 x64
[10:12:00.667] SSH Resolver called for "ssh-remote+vscode-tmf632-ssh.devpod", attempt 1
[10:12:00.667] "remote.SSH.useLocalServer": false
[10:12:00.667] "remote.SSH.useExecServer": false
[10:12:00.667] "remote.SSH.showLoginTerminal": false
[10:12:00.667] "remote.SSH.remotePlatform": {}
[10:12:00.667] "remote.SSH.path": undefined
[10:12:00.668] "remote.SSH.configFile": undefined
[10:12:00.668] "remote.SSH.useFlock": true
[10:12:00.668] "remote.SSH.lockfilesInTmp": false
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.localServerDownload": auto
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.remoteServerListenOnSocket": false
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.showLoginTerminal": false
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.defaultExtensions": []
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.loglevel": 2
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.enableDynamicForwarding": true
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.enableRemoteCommand": false
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.serverPickPortsFromRange": {}
[10:12:00.669] "remote.SSH.serverInstallPath": {}
[10:12:00.672] SSH Resolver called for host: vscode-tmf632-ssh.devpod
[10:12:00.672] Setting up SSH remote "vscode-tmf632-ssh.devpod"
[10:12:00.674] Using commit id "31c37ee8f63491495ac49e43b8544550fbae4533" and quality "stable" for server
[10:12:00.675] Install and start server if needed
[10:12:03.250] Checking ssh with "C:\Windows\system32\ssh.exe -V"
[10:12:03.251] Got error from ssh: spawn C:\Windows\system32\ssh.exe ENOENT
[10:12:03.251] Checking ssh with "C:\Windows\ssh.exe -V"
[10:12:03.252] Got error from ssh: spawn C:\Windows\ssh.exe ENOENT
[10:12:03.252] Checking ssh with "C:\Windows\System32\Wbem\ssh.exe -V"
[10:12:03.253] Got error from ssh: spawn C:\Windows\System32\Wbem\ssh.exe ENOENT
[10:12:03.254] Checking ssh with "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ssh.exe -V"
[10:12:03.254] Got error from ssh: spawn C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ssh.exe ENOENT
[10:12:03.254] Checking ssh with "C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe -V"
[10:12:03.287] > OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.4.3

[10:12:03.290] Running script with connection command: "C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe" -T -D 51599 "vscode-tmf632-ssh.devpod" bash
[10:12:03.291] Terminal shell path: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
[10:12:20.296] Resolver error: Error: Connecting with SSH timed out
at g.Timeout (c:\Users\NunoMartins.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.108.0\out\extension.js:2:460371)
at Timeout._onTimeout (c:\Users\NunoMartins.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-0.108.0\out\extension.js:2:579770)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:569:17)
at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:512:7)
[10:12:20.299] ------

[10:12:23.747] > 10:12:23�[38;5;6minfoWaiting for devpod agent to come up...

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[10:12:23.748] Got some output, clearing connection timeout
[10:12:46.753] > 10:12:46 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:13:09.767] > 10:13:09 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:13:32.795] > 10:13:32 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:13:55.817] > 10:13:55 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:14:18.830] > 10:14:18 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:14:41.843] > 10:14:41 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:15:04.860] > 10:15:04 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:15:27.871] > 10:15:27 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:15:50.896] > 10:15:50 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:16:13.909] > 10:16:13 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:16:36.933] > 10:16:36 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:16:59.958] > 10:16:59 �[38;5;6minfo Waiting for devpod agent to come up...
[10:17:23.398] > 10:17:23 �[38;5;1merror Try enabling Debug mode under Settings to see a more verbose output
10:17:23 �[38;5;1mfatal connect to server: timeout waiting for instance connection: context deadline exceeded
kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
[10:17:24.663] "install" terminal command done
[10:17:24.663] Install terminal quit with output: kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
`