Unable to use Interactive credential flow with remote-ssh vscode sessions

[abbottdev]

If you use a Linux Remote-SSH session with vscode you are forced into using Device-code authentication flows which our organisation prevents for security reasons. We need interactive flows to be correctly used if the environment allows this.

If you install xdg-open ensure $NUGET_CREDENTIALPROVIDER_FORCE_CANSHOWDIALOG_TO=true and set $DISPLAY=false vscode will launch the appropriate browser window on the user's machine. (NB you can verify the shell script's existence when using Remote-SSH by inspecting the $BROWSER env var.

I've created an upstream issue to track this here: AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet#5246

[embetten]

We are working with nuget and the .NET team to enable canShowDialog to be true by default so NUGET_CREDENTIALPROVIDER_FORCE_CANSHOWDIALOG_TO is not longer required see NuGet/Home#14010.

[abbottdev]

@embetten this is specifically for Remote-SSH sessions which don't work currently even if you use the NUGET_CREDENTIALPROVIDER_FORCE_CANSHOWDIALOG_TO workaround - I would therefore see this issue as still needed after the NUGET_CREDENTIALPROVIDER_FORCE_CANSHOWDIALOG_TO requirement was fixed.