Overview

On Windows, if I try to run the coder login command flow to create an initial user, the command fails with: Error: the initial user cannot be created in non-interactive mode

See @vapurrmaid 's screenshot:

The bug is that we rely on a helper library - isatty to decide if we can handle input. The isatty function has an open issue for detecting Windows terminals

A temporary workaround is to use the --force-tty flag for the CLI. This overrides the check, and tells the binary to assume it is used in a tty. We implemented this to ensure the tests pass reliably on automation, and we assumed that this bug only occurred in automated tests - but it seems like that assumption was invalid.

It looks like in @vapurrmaid 's case - a MINGW console is used. We should evaluate the isatty behavior on a few different consoles in Windows (because there are a lot of cases...):

• Raw win32 console (cmd.exe)
• Powershell (powershell.exe)
• MINGW Bash
• Cygwin Bash