do you need to login - using az devops login - when AZURE DEVOPS EXT PAT is set

Question

I have PAT set using environment variable so do I need again login using az DevOps login in cli to work on Azure DevOps?

I tried the codes in the below three workstations.

1. Ubuntu running in Azure
2. Ubuntu running locally in the container on my laptop
3. WSL (Ubuntu) running locally on my laptop

It keeps on failing in the 3rd one.

Please note: I can retrieve the project list from the first two "workstations" without invoking az DevOps login.

Answer 1

As you have already set the PAT using the environment variable you don't need to again login using az DevOps login.
To use a PAT, set the AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT environment variable at the process level.

export AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT=xxxxxxxxxx

Your bash task is not setting up the environment variable. For that you can add the environment variable declaration to the AzureCLI task and that should work.

env:
AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT: $(pat_token)

I hope this will help you.