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Environment variables¶

The Incus client and daemon respect some environment variables to adapt to the user’s environment and to turn some advanced features on and off.

Common¶

Name	Description
`INCUS_DIR`	The Incus data directory
`INCUS_INSECURE_TLS`	If set to true, allows all default Go ciphers both for client <-> server communication and server <-> image servers (server <-> server and clustering are not affected)
`PATH`	List of paths to look into when resolving binaries
`http_proxy`	Proxy server URL for HTTP
`https_proxy`	Proxy server URL for HTTPS
`no_proxy`	List of domains, IP addresses or CIDR ranges that don’t require the use of a proxy

Client environment variable¶

Name	Description
`EDITOR`	What text editor to use
`INCUS_CONF`	Path to the client configuration directory
`INCUS_GLOBAL_CONF`	Path to the global client configuration directory
`INCUS_PROJECT`	Name of the project to use (overrides configured default project)
`INCUS_REMOTE`	Name of the remote to use (overrides configured default remote)
`VISUAL`	What text editor to use (if `EDITOR` isn’t set)

Server environment variable¶

Name	Description
`INCUS_AGENT_PATH`	Path to the directory including the `incus-agent` builds
`INCUS_CLUSTER_UPDATE`	Script to call on a cluster update
`INCUS_DEVMONITOR_DIR`	Path to be monitored by the device monitor. This is primarily for testing
`INCUS_DOCUMENTATION`	Path to the documentation to serve through the web server
`INCUS_EDK2_PATH`	Path to EDK2 firmware build including `_CODE.fd` and `_VARS.fd`
`INCUS_EXEC_PATH`	Full path to the Incus binary (used when forking subcommands)
`INCUS_IDMAPPED_MOUNTS_DISABLE`	Disable idmapped mounts support (useful when testing traditional UID shifting)
`INCUS_LXC_TEMPLATE_CONFIG`	Path to the LXC template configuration directory
`INCUS_SECURITY_APPARMOR`	If set to `false`, forces AppArmor off
`INCUS_SECURITY_SELINUX`	If set to `true`, turns on SELinux integration
`INCUS_SKIP_INSTANCE_TYPES`	If set to `true`, skip downloading instance type definitions
`INCUS_UI`	Path to the web UI to serve through the web server
`INCUS_USBIDS_PATH`	Path to the hwdata `usb.ids` file