WSL2 Azure Login not portable accross various WSL setups

[gtardif]

Description

WSL2 Azure login opens a browser to perform Azure login steps. Currently it opens a browser with wslview <url>. This is not portable accross WSL setups and sometimes blocks users to log into Azure. We need to

• potentially find a more portable way to open a browser from WSL2
• as a fallback, use Azure Device code flow to not start a browser but ask the user to manually open a web page & copy an authentication code, like the az command line does on WSL2

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Thanks @karolz-ms for repro details :
On my Ubuntu 20.04 distro:

karolz@karolzp1:~/code$ wslview http://www.microsoft.com
(nothing happens)
karolz@karolzp1:~/code$ echo $?
1

On my Ubuntu 18.04 distro:

karolz@karolzp1:~/code$ wslview http://www.microsoft.com
wslview: command not found

☹ I am pretty sure this is due to me disabling the Windows interop. Just FYI:

karolz@karolzp1:~/code$ cat /etc/wsl.conf 
[interop]
enabled=false
appendWindowsPath=false

Output of docker version: tested on build shared with MSFT v0.1.12-alpha1

[gtardif]

@benhillis, would you have any recommendation to have a more portable way to open a web browser from WSL2, replacing wslview <url> ? (Your name was suggested by @simonferquel for this). Thx in advance !

[BigMorty]

I think falling back to device code flow like 'az login' does is fine.

[gtardif]

That will be fixed in next release

[BigMorty]

Awesome,. thanks

[gtardif]

The fallback to device code flow has been released now.