Save as Root in Remote - SSH

This extension saves files with root privileges on Linux or macOS environments connected with Remote - SSH, is an easy solution to FileSystemProvider: no way of handling permissions issues #48659.

Usage

Select Save as Root in the command palette (F1, Ctrl+Shift+P, or Cmd+Shift+P).

Alternatively, you can use Save as Specified User... command to save as a non-root user.

This extension also adds the New File as Root... option to the explorer's context menu when the window is connected to a remote folder.

Contributing

If you find a bug or have a suggestion, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request to the GitHub repository.

(For VS Code Extension Authors) Listening to Save Events from This Extension

Saving a document using this extension does not trigger the standard VS Code save events (vscode.workspace.onDidSaveTextDocument and vscode.workspace.onWillSaveTextDocument).

To listen for save events from this extension:

1. Modify your extension's activate() function to return an object with the following functions. (Returning an object from activate is the standard way to export an API from an extension. See https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#extensions)

   function activate() {
       return {
           // This function is called just before saving the document.
           // document: the document that will be saved using this extension's command
           // reason: always `vscode.TextDocumentSaveReason.Manual`
           onWillSaveDocument(document: vscode.TextDocument, reason: vscode.TextDocumentSaveReason): Promise<void> {
           },
   
           // This function is called after saving the document.
           // document: the document that was saved using this extension's command
           onDocumentSaved(document: vscode.TextDocument): Promise<void> {
           },
       }
   }

2. Add your extension's ID to "save-as-root.extensionsToNotifyOnSave" in the VS Code settings as shown below. You can open a GitHub issue requesting the inclusion of your extension's ID in the default value of "save-as-root.extensionsToNotifyOnSave".

   {
       ...
       "save-as-root.extensionsToNotifyOnSave": [..., "<your extension's ID>"]
   }