No Debian Support for Azure AD Login VMs

[Sylphe88]

I haven't been able to find a single flavour of Debian machines allowing the Azure AD Login option. For instance, A Debian 10 machine gives this management screen:

Some Suse and CentOS images that are supposed to support AADSSHLogin are also blocked. Ubuntu and RHEL images work well, as per the documentation linked below. Haven't tried to create these VM using CLI yet.

Thanks for your help, --Eric

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• ID: a2ede563-b873-0bc3-959f-69e555f0efcc
• Version Independent ID: 8471d9e4-6c79-0cf1-c5ed-50c58e1b92aa
• Content: Login in to Linux virtual machine in Azure using Azure Active Directory and openSSH certificate-based authentication
• Content Source: articles/active-directory/devices/howto-vm-sign-in-azure-ad-linux.md
• Service: active-directory
• Sub-service: devices
• GitHub Login: @MicrosoftGuyJFlo
• Microsoft Alias: joflore

[JamesTran-MSFT]

@Sylphe88 Thanks for your feedback! We will investigate and update as appropriate.

[MicrosoftGuyJFlo]

Email out to PG. @SanDeo-MSFT thoughts on this issue?

[XristophD]

I was stumbling across this issue today trying to add the AADSSHLoginForLinux VM Extension to a Debian 12 VM in Azure. Debugging the installation script that is executed during the extension installation seems to fail during the check if the package aadsshlogin exists in the package repository maintained by Microsoft (https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/microsoft-debian-bookworm-prod/)

Since this isn't the case, the installation fails with the message: Unsupported Linux version. Learn more at https://aka.ms/AADSSHLogin

Since the documentation lists Debian 12 as one of the supported Linux versions, could you please advise if documentation is wrong or the package installer is somehow faulty.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/howto-vm-sign-in-azure-ad-linux#supported-linux-distributions-and-azure-regions