Use sudo with the askpass option instead of pkexec #1902
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Description
Swiftly installation currently uses
pkexecto handle authentication when running the post install script. However, this will not work in dev containers or in a remote ssh environment.This PR switches to using
sudowith askpass to have VS Code ask for the administrator password instead. The askpass functionality is done in a similar way to how the VS Code git extension does it: by having a shell script run a Node application that connects to the Swift extension via an HTTP server.Tasks
[ ] Documentation has been updated[ ] Added an entry to CHANGELOG.md if applicable