Automatic 'podman login' with configured container registry not working

[AObuchow]

Describe the bug

After having configured a container registry in User Dashboard, new workspaces are not being automatically logged into the configured container registries. I tried with quay.io and docker.io and neither worked.

This is currently reproducible in the 3.14 builds of DevSpaces and on the dogfooding cluster.

Che version

7.86@latest

Steps to reproduce

1. Configure a container registry from the User Dashboard's User Preferences (click on the gravatar in the top right of the dashboard -> user preferences -> add a container registry with your credentials.
2. Start a workspace
3. Open a terminal and run podman login --get-login <container-registry>. For example: podman login --get-login quay.io
4. You'll see Error: not logged into <container-registry>. E.g. Error: not logged into quay.io

Expected behavior

We should already be logged into the configured container registries.
For example, if quay.io is configured as a container registry, the output of podman login --get-login quay.io should be your quay.io username.

Runtime

OpenShift

Screenshots

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Installation method

OperatorHub

Environment

Linux

Eclipse Che Logs

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Additional context

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[AObuchow]

I can see that the associated kubernetes.io/dockercfg, kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson are being created, and the dockerconfigjson has the appropriate value. Perhaps some other error is occurring when running the podman login command that's being "swallowed" by the || true.

[tolusha]

Hello, @AObuchow
I've tried on dogfooding cluster (+minikube cluster), but I wasn't able to reproduce the issue unfortunately.

[AObuchow]

@tolusha After looking into this further, I believe the podman login command needs to surround the username and password with single quotes '' to support any "special characters" such as !, so that they aren't interpreted by bash.

aobuchow@fedora:~$ echo !test
bash: !test: event not found
aobuchow@fedora:~$ echo '!test'
!test