AzureCLICredential: exec: "C:\\WINDOWS\\cmd.exe": file does not exist

[DaleyKD]

Windows 10 21H2 PowerShell 7.2.6

Installed Azure\kubelogin by exec az aks install-cli. It's currently version 0.0.20.

PS C:\> $env:PATH.split(";") | Sort-Object
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\wbin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DTS\Binn\
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common
C:\Program Files\Azure Data Studio\bin
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin
C:\Program Files\dotnet\
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Memory and Storage Tool\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\150\Tools\Binn\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\
C:\Program Files\nodejs
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR
C:\Program Files\OpenSSL\bin
C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7
C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\
C:\Program Files\Solidigm\Solidigm(TM) Storage Tool\
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin
C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop\version-bin
C:\Python310\
C:\Python310\Scripts\
C:\Python39\
C:\Python39\Scripts\
C:\Users\kdaley\.azure-kubelogin
C:\Users\kdaley\.dotnet\tools
C:\Users\kdaley\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin
C:\Users\kdaley\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
C:\Users\kdaley\AppData\Local\Programs\Fiddler
C:\Users\kdaley\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin
C:\Users\kdaley\AppData\Roaming\nvm
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

This is how I prepared everything.

PS C:\> az login
PS C:\> az account set -s={SUB_ID}
PS C:\> az aks get-credentials -g cluster-resources -n my-aks-cluster
A different object named clusterUser_cluster-resources_my-aks-cluster already exists in your kubeconfig file.
Overwrite? (y/n): y
Merged "my-aks-cluster" as current context in C:\Users\kdaley\.kube\config
PS C:\> kubelogin convert-kubeconfig -l azurecli

Finally, I just want kubectl to get me a version number.

PS C:\> kubectl version
Error: failed to get token: expected an empty error but received: AzureCLICredential: exec: "C:\\WINDOWS\\cmd.exe": file does not exist
WARNING: This version information is deprecated and will be replaced with the output from kubectl version --short.  Use --output=yaml|json to get the full version.
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"25", GitVersion:"v1.25.0", GitCommit:"a866cbe2e5bbaa01cfd5e969aa3e033f3282a8a2", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-08-23T17:44:59Z", GoVersion:"go1.19", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"windows/amd64"}
Kustomize Version: v4.5.7
Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec: executable kubelogin failed with exit code 1

Not sure why it's looking for cmd.exe in the root of Windows?

(Omitted some for brevity, such as C:\Windows\servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~19041.1826.1.8 and C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-commandprompt_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.746_none_...)

PS C:\Windows\System32> Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Windows -Filter cmd.exe -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force
    Directory: C:\Windows\System32

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---            4/9/2021  8:48 AM         289792 cmd.exe

    Directory: C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---            4/9/2021  8:49 AM         236544 cmd.exe

[DaleyKD]

I copied cmd.exe to my WINDOWS directory and it worked... but I'm only going to keep it there temporarily.

[weinong]

@DaleyKD from this code it's using the cmd.exe to invoke the az cli. I'm guessing for some reason cmd.exe isn't available in your search path? does typing cmd.exe work?

[DaleyKD]

@weinong : That code also shows that it's getting the %SYSTEMROOT% directory. That resolves to C:\WINDOWS on all of my machines. That is NOT where cmd.exe lives. I would think it should be %WINDIR%\system32 or %COMSPEC% (which is the full path to cmd.exe).

But to answer your question, yes, cmd.exe was in my search path (%PATH%). It is in C:\windows\system32 which is in my %PATH% environment variable. And when I type cmd.exe, it opens right up.

EDIT: In fact, if you look at my OP, you'll see that I showed all of the directories in my search path (%PATH%).