Default username does not work

[sungkim11]

I entered the default username in the setting.

It ignores default username and it uses some other username.

[Jniklas2]

I have the same issue on windows 11 with vscode 1.95.2 and the tailscale extension v1.0.0. It always uses the username from windows and ignores that setting

[jylin]

The default username (set from "Change SSH username") seems to work for opening a terminal but not for "Attach VS Code". Could this be fixed?

Additional feature request: be able to specify per-host default usernames through settings. Right now, it's not clear where the default username is being saved, but it'd be nice if it were in settings so that it can be synced to the cloud too.

[Jniklas2]

Right now, it's not clear where the default username is being saved

It's saved in the ssh config file in %HOMEPATH%\.ssh\config on windows and in ~\.ssh\config on most linux distributions.

[jylin]

I configure a default username in the VSCode plugin, and I don't see anything being set in .ssh/config. It still manages to use that default username for the "Terminal" command.

[Jniklas2]

I configure a default username in the VSCode plugin, and I don't see anything being set in .ssh/config. It still manages to use that default username for the "Terminal" command.

Ah, I thought you meant how it's for saved connections.

The default username is save in
%appdata%\Code\User\settings.json on windows and
~/.config/Code/User/settings.json on linux. The key is tailscale.ssh.defaultUsername. That file is automatically synced, if you enable the config sync (but you decide to disable the sync for specific options).

But it sadly still ignores that setting :(

[jylin]

That's a global username setting, and it works fine for me, but from the UI you can set a specific username per host, which works too but I don't know where that setting is saved (it's not in settings.json).

[Jniklas2]

That's saved in the ssh config files, like I told you before:

Right now, it's not clear where the default username is being saved

It's saved in the ssh config file in %HOMEPATH%\.ssh\config on windows and in ~\.ssh\config on most linux distributions.

[Jniklas2]

@jylin why the the thumbs down? I've checked the paths on my system, and if you configure a username for specific hosts, then it's saved in the ssh client config...