VSCode no access to Nitrokey

Nitrokeys
1

Hi,
I use my Nitrokey mostly for SSH Authentication and signing git commits. That works perfectly fine from the terminal. But I also want to do the same from within VSCode… which I can without issues inside the VSCode terminal, but I have problems with the GUI.

When I open VSCode from the terminal with command code, I can use the GUI button to push to a remote server. But when I open VSCode using my Gnome keybinding executing code command, or the Gnome launcher icon - Pushing to a remote through GUI doesn’t anymore. It doesn’t recognize my key and so authentication fails.

I have the following in my .bashrc:

# SSH Auth with GPG
unset SSH_AGENT_PID
if [ "${gnupg_SSH_AUTH_SOCK_by:-0}" -ne $$ ]; then
  export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)"
fi

And I assume that VSCode is somehow not picking up this environment variable and thus it fails. I already tried to change the keybinding to open vscode to the command bash -c "source ~/.bashrc; exec code" which results in the same issue.

Anyone of you got this working? Help is appreciated. Thanks!

2

I’m not using it, so it’s a blindshot: Have a look at this issue on how to check its debug log - it should at least show you if the nitrokey is recognised locally. Perhaps setting the mentioned options help the issue too.

3

Just use env to see the environment variables, dump them to a file and compare them using diff.