Azure-cli: az login WSL 2 Ubuntu 18.04 does not open browser

[nbihan-mediware]

Describe the bug
When running command az login web browser won't open.
Running on verbose mode

az login --verbose
Detect no GUI is available, so fall back to device code
To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter the code GFHKIOWYA to authenticate.

To Reproduce
Run az login on WSL 2 Ubuntu 18.04

Expected behavior
Default browser opens on AZ login page.

Environment summary
Windows 10 Pro 2004

WSL 2 Ubuntu 18.04

uname -a
Linux MY-COMPUTER 4.19.104-microsoft-standard #1 SMP Wed Feb 19 06:37:35 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

az --version
azure-cli                         2.10.0

command-modules-nspkg              2.0.3
core                              2.10.0
nspkg                              3.0.4
telemetry                          1.0.4

Python location '/opt/az/bin/python3'
Extensions directory '/home/nico/.azure/cliextensions'

Python (Linux) 3.6.10 (default, Jul 31 2020, 08:33:11)
[GCC 7.5.0]

Additional context
Running

powershell.exe -Command 'Start-Process https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues'

opens successfully the browser on the Azure CLI issues page.

[yonzhan]

add to S174

[jiasli]

We currently haven't developed and tested on WSL 2, so it is not supported yet. For now, you may use

az login --use-device-code

[nbihan-mediware]

@yonzhan, maybe I missed it, but was there any actual resolution?

[yonzhan]

This feature is currently not supported in CLI and you can use the workaround provided by @jiasli . If you do want this, we can consider planning it in our backlog. Due to a bunch of high priority features, we do not have bandwidth to support it currently. Thanks for your understanding.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.

[nbihan-mediware]

I totally understand the priorities but a bit disappointing to see no support for WSL2 when Microsoft is now backporting it to Windows 10 19.09 and 19.03.
I think the bug is rather simple and resides in the way the CLI is detecting WSL vs WSL2, and fall back in the default behavior.

[jiasli]

Let me reopen it and put it into our roadmap.

[schundu9]

Just use below - its Display issue
DISPLAY=:0 az login