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mydudeiamhere

code-server GitHub token not authenticating the GitHub Authentication extension

I'm trying to setup code server to automatically authenticate the GitHub Authentication extension via the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable. Based on this e2e test, it looks like I just have to set GITHUB_TOKEN and it should work.

Instead, the extension tries to initiate an oauth device flow for a new token, indicating that it isn't "happy" with the token provided via the env. What am I doing wrong here?

I have confirmed that the code-server process does in fact have the token set, and that the token is valid:

coder@coder-efe1b49b-27e3-4487-b90d-8b2783e773b0-6dcf9bc97c-jgmxj:~/repo$ ps 458
    PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    458 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib/code-server/lib/node /usr/lib/code-server --auth none --port 13337
coder@coder-efe1b49b-27e3-4487-b90d-8b2783e773b0-6dcf9bc97c-jgmxj:~/repo$ grep "GITHUB_TOKEN=" "/proc/458/environ"
grep: /proc/458/environ: binary file matches
coder@coder-efe1b49b-27e3-4487-b90d-8b2783e773b0-6dcf9bc97c-jgmxj:~/repo$ gh auth status | head -c 48
github.com
  ✓ Logged in to github.com account
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