Unable to login into the Azure portal through terraform

[VIU2105]

Describe the bug

I have been using the backend block by providing the "access_key" details of the storage account, but it's still prompting for az login. Below is the error message I am currently encountering:

Related command

terraform plan

Errors

Planning failed. Terraform encountered an error while generating this plan.

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│ Error: unable to build authorizer for Resource Manager API: could not configure AzureCli Authorizer: tenant ID was not specified and the default tenant ID could not be determined: obtaining tenant ID: obtaining account details: running Azure CLI: exit status 1: ERROR: Please run 'az login' to setup account.
│
│ with provider["registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm"],
│ on backend.tf line 21, in provider "azurerm":
│ 21: provider "azurerm" {

Issue script & Debug output

terraform plan
Acquiring state lock. This may take a few moments...

Planning failed. Terraform encountered an error while generating this plan.

╷
│ Error: unable to build authorizer for Resource Manager API: could not configure AzureCli Authorizer: tenant ID was not specified and the default tenant ID could not be determined: obtaining tenant ID: obtaining account details: running Azure CLI: exit status 1: ERROR: Please run 'az login' to setup account.
│
│ with provider["registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm"],
│ on backend.tf line 21, in provider "azurerm":
│ 21: provider "azurerm" {
│

Expected behavior

it should run

Environment Summary

Terraform v1.11.2
on windows_amd64

• provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm v4.25.0

Additional context

No response

[yonzhan]

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

[github-actions]

Here are some similar issues that might help you. Please check if they can solve your problem.

• Unable to login via az login --scope https://graph.microsoft.com/.default #28062

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Possible solution (Extracted from existing issue, might be incorrect; please verify carefully)

This workaround works for me: #27879 (comment)

Reference:

• Unable to login via az login --scope https://graph.microsoft.com/.default #28062 (comment)

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