Description of problem:

While following the official DevSpaces documentation to connect to a running workspace via Remote SSH, the documented SSH configuration fails on macOS when the IdentityFile path uses $HOME.

Replacing $HOME with ~ allows the Remote SSH connection to work successfully.

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Ensure workspace is running (example: empty-ipwg-onta).
2. Login to the OpenShift cluster:
3.  Run port-forward
4.  Configure SSH client on macOS using the documented steps

   This can also be configured locally in the client SSH configuration file (eg. $HOME/.ssh/config) with the following :

   Host localhost
     HostName 127.0.0.1
     User user
     Port 2022
     IdentityFile $HOME/.ssh/ssh_client_ed25519_key
     UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
   

5  Attempt to connect using VS Code → Remote SSH.

Actual results:

• Remote SSH fails to start.

• Connection does not establish when $HOME is used in IdentityFile.

• No clear error indicating path resolution failure.

Expected results:

• $HOME should be correctly resolved  as ~ on macOS, as documented.

• Remote SSH should connect successfully using the documented configuration.

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