Browser is not opening while running 'az login' the command prompt with different user.

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Related command

az login

Describe the bug

I need to execute the az login in cmd prompt as a different user, If I try to execute the az login in cmd prompt with different user browser is not opening.

To Reproduce

First I opened the new cmd prompt using the command "runas /user:%USER_NAME% cmd", It will ask for the Password after that new command prompt window will be opened.
Now type the az login, it will show the message that "A web browser is opened at ....", but I don't see any browser opened.
Though I have tried az login --debug I see that a login link was logged, I used that link for login now I have logged in successfully, and remaining commands (az account show, az account get-access-token, .. ) are working fine.

Expected behavior

A browser should be opened when I login using another user in the cmd prompt.

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[jiasli]

I tried to run runas /user:User1 cmd (User1 is a local admin user), but couldn't repro this issue. The browser is successfully opened under User1's context:

May I know the reason why you need to use runas to execute Azure CLI? Azure CLI doesn't require admin permission to run. All its configuration is saved under ~/.azure.

cc @rayluo

[rayluo]

To Reproduce

First I opened the new cmd prompt using the command "runas /user:%USER_NAME% cmd", It will ask for the Password after that new command prompt window will be opened. Now type the az login, it will show the message that "A web browser is opened at ....", but I don't see any browser opened. Though I have tried az login --debug I see that a login link was logged, I used that link for login now I have logged in successfully

I do not know the exact reason, but I can give some analysis here.

As per @jmamidi122 's report, the login link in log was actually working, and the subsequent login was successful, that means the underlying login mechanism (i.e. the mini http server created by Azure CLI (MSAL)) was working fine. It is the browser failed to launch. You may consider run this pure Python command as a different user, and see whether the browser also fails to pop up, and if does not pop up, you will need to somehow fix that first.

python -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('https://github.com')"

runas /user:%USER_NAME% python -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('https://github.com')"

@jiasli , does the end user need to replace the "python" part in the above commands to something with their Azure CLI's bundled Python executable file?