microsoft / microsoft/copilot-for-eclipse

Default location of copilot-language-server.exe requires binary execution rights outside safe locations

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Hi,

Our clients are set up so that a regular user is not allowed to run *.exe files outside of Program Files.
The copilot-language-server.exe is copied to org.eclipse.osgi\793\0\.cp\copilot-agent in Eclipse's configuration path. Because this lies outside of Program Files, the Copilot plugin fails to launch the language server due to:

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program  "<eclipse_config>\org.eclipse.osgi\793\0\.cp\copilot-agent\copilot-language-server.exe": CreateProcess error=1260, This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator

Please give us a way to configure a override or fallback path where the plugin can find the language server. This way we can ship it inside Program Files, a safe location.

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