AzureCliCredentials & PATH on MAC

Papst

Hey,

when I try to use a AzureCliCredential to authenticate against Azure services, LINQPad uses a path, where my azure cli is not included, when installed via home-brew.

Quick fix is using this snippet within the query at the beginning:

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $"/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:{Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH")}");

How can I solve that?

JoeAlbahari

You could create a class in My Extensions to do this:

public static class MyUtil
{
    public static void Azure() => Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $"/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:{Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH")}");  
}

Updating your path globally via the OS, in a way that works reliably with both the command-line and applications is difficult (or even impossible?) on macOS.

JeffMercado

One other approach that would feel a little more natural and worth mentioning is to create a script that you would load in. Treat it like a "source include." You could add that setup in your OnInit() method for the script.

Azure.linq:

void OnInit()
{
    // this runs once at start when #loaded in another script
    Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $"/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:{Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH")}");
}

Then all you would need to do is #load it in your scripts that utilizes it.

#load "Azure"

void Main()
{
    // it should work as expected now
}