VS Code Bash calls to Azure not authenticated

Question

When trying to create a storage account in azure from VS Code's Bash Terminal, I get the following error:

error retrieving default location: The client '' with object id '' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups/read' over scope '' or the scope is invalid. 
If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials.

After successfully logging into Azure using az login, I still get the error.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '20 at 01:41

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The error means your logged user account/service principal as mentioned in the error does not have enough permission, to solve the issue, navigate to your subscription in the azure portal -> add it with a role e.g. Contributor like below.

Note: To add the role, your account logged in the portal need to be the Owner or User Access Administrator of the subscription.

answered Sep 15 '20 at 01:41

Joy Wang

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But if I am logged into the azure portal I can perform these actions. Same user. – kevin Sep 15 '20 at 01:58
@kevin Could you check what is your role in the subscription? – Joy Wang Sep 15 '20 at 02:01
the role is the same in both environments. – kevin Sep 15 '20 at 02:07
@kevin I know that, please tell me what is the name of the role, and please provide the complete script you used to create the storage account. – Joy Wang Sep 15 '20 at 03:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '20 at 04:08

After some time past, I was able to run my bash scripts without issues. I ran AZ login again and changed to my subscription. I did all of this before, but I believe it worked this time because the previous session timed out. Previously when I logged into that session I didn't have the necessary permissions and logging in again without previously logging out did not refresh my permissions.

VS Code Bash calls to Azure not authenticated

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