Permission Denied While Editing Files on a Romote Device

[mfatih7]

Hello

I am trying to use VS Code and Remote Explorer extension to connect to Virtual Machine on the Google Cloud Platform.
After I connect to the Virtual Machine I try to edit files on the Virtual Machine with VSCode File Explorer.
While saving the file I get the error below.

How can I do all of my operations on the remote device as sudo user?

[eleanorjboyd]

If you connect via the terminal to this remote on the same user and then try and edit this file does that work successfully?

[mfatih7]

@eleanorjboyd
Thank you for the answer.

If I connect to Virtual Machine via terminal and use Vim to edit files as sudo user I can edit files without any problem.

[eleanorjboyd]

Do you think it is the same as this issue here? #8060

@bpasero any thoughts on the permissions here? Same for issue 8060 we were struggling for a next direction regarding the file permissions not working.

[bpasero]

Does the node.js server process run under the same user as the terminal? Because in the end the file will be written to on behalf of the server node.js process. We use fs.writeFile and variants for writing in node.js.

[roblourens]

@mfatih7 do you use a workflow where you change users when connecting manually to this remote (connect as user1, edit files as user2)? That scenario may not work properly here.

You can check this by opening a terminal in the Remote-SSH window and checking whether you are the same user as when connecting manually. Please also check whether you can edit the file with vim in the Remote-SSH vscode terminal as well.

[mfatih7]

@roblourens

Thank you for the answer

I do not change users.
I open vscode on my local machine.
I click Remote Explorer Extension icon on the left.
I select a virtual machine and open it in current window or in new window.
After I connect to virtual machine I open a terminal in vscode
If I use vim to edit files without sudo user I get the readonly file error.
If I use vim to edit files with sudo user I can edit without any error.
But if I open the file in the editor of vscode and make some changes to the file I get the error that I mention at the beginning of this issue.

Somehow vscode editor does not have sudo privileges while editing files.
If you want to see the situation visually I can show it if we set up a shared session.

[roblourens]

Thanks for the clear explanation. We don't support this scenario currently. This is tracked in either microsoft/vscode#48659 or #690