app: Fix for MacOS auth plugins

On at least MacOS, GUI apps do not take on the shell paths.
However they are needed for kubectl auth plugins,
and perhaps other binaries like minikube

Fixes #1885

Signed-off-by: René Dudfield <[email protected]>

app/electron/main.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import { IpcMainEvent, MenuItemConstructorOptions } from 'electron/main';
 import log from 'electron-log';
 import find_process from 'find-process';
 import fs from 'fs';
+import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { userInfo } from 'node:os';
 import open from 'open';
 import path from 'path';
 import url from 'url';
@@ -16,6 +18,42 @@ import windowSize from './windowSize';
 
 dotenv.config({ path: path.join(process.resourcesPath, '.env') });
 
+/**
+ * On MacOS apps do not get the same environment variables as the terminal.
+ *
+ * However we want the same PATH as the shell to run the users terminal programs.
+ */
+function addPathFromShellToEnvOnMac() {
+ if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ let defaultShell;
+ try {
+ defaultShell = userInfo().shell || '/bin/zsh';
+ } catch (error) {
+ defaultShell = '/bin/zsh';
+ }
+
+ // login interactive shell
+ // f option is to prevent menu on zshell when user has no config.
+ // DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE is to prevent the shell from updating.
+ const env = { ...process.env, DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE: 'true' };
+ const result = spawnSync(defaultShell, ['--login', '-fic', 'echo $PATH'], {
+ env: env,
+ encoding: 'utf-8',
+ timeout: 8000, // in case it's stuck
+ });
+
+ if (result.status === 0) {
+ const path = result.stdout.toString();
+ process.env.PATH = path;
+ } else {
+ console.error('Failed to get shell PATH, just using process.env.PATH');
+ }
+}
+addPathFromShellToEnvOnMac();
+
 const args = yargs
  .command('$0 [kubeconfig]', '', yargs => {
  yargs