Why i can't login to code-server on my Debian VM?

Question

I have successfully installed code-server on a VM instance of Google Cloud, when i access from mi browser, code-server asks me to login, it says that the password is in ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml so when i run: sudo cat ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml i copy the password and put into the textbox, but when i try to login, it say's me: "Incorrect password".

I've tried to change the passtowrd in the config.yaml file and restart code-server but it didn't work.

I've got the latest version of code-server:

https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/3.4.1/code-server-3.4.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz

My VM is running over Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie)

I jus wrote the command: sudo wget https://github.com/cdr/code-server/releases/download/3.4.1/code-server-3.4.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz

So i've extracted all files with the tar command, and i've moved all the files of the folder to my Debian bin directory.

I'm running this command to execute code-server: sudo code-server --bind-addr=0.0.0.0:8080 and i'm accessing code server through: mydomain.com:8080

So i don't know what is happening, could someone help me?

Answer 1

The problem was that i was executing the cat command through my own user on the server, but code-server was taking the info from the root user of the server, i've solved changing to the root user: sudo su - and executing the sudo cat ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml command again, it gaves me the right password of code-server.