Azure-cli: az interactive in Azure Cloud Shell: authentication problem?

[yokawasa]

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Environment summary

• Browser: Chrome Version 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Azure Cloud Shell

In intractive mode of Azure Cloud Shell, I got the following message for any commands I execute,

yoichi@Azure:~$ az interactive
az>> vm list
Please run 'az login' to setup account.

So I tried to login by typing 'az login', however I got the message below. Then I closed the browser, opened the Azure Cloud Shell, and tried again but I got the same message.

az>> login
Azure Cloud Shell automatically authenticates the user account it was initially launched under, as a result 'az login' is disabled.
az>

[tjprescott]

@yokawasa thank you for the report. I have reproduced the issue and we will address this in an upcoming release.

[williexu]

We cache the account info of a user upon az login.
The problem is that interactive looks into a different folder for this cached information and thus would require another login from interactive mode to get this information.
Unfortunately, a second login is not possible in cloudshell. A workaround until our next release would be to copy over the contents of ".azure" into ".azure-shell".
https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/pull/5442 will make interactive mode look at the .azure for this info.

[tjprescott]

@williexu what is the specific bash command you executed in the shell? That's all anyone needs to know :)

[williexu]

Good point. Run cp -a .azure/. .azure-shell after starting up cloudshell.