Terraform is unable to acquire access token from Azure CLI

Question

In my local windows pc I have Azure CLI and Terraform.

I am logged into Azure CLI.

az account show shows my logged in user as isDefault = true

I am able to connect with Azure resources, no hickups.

I run terraform plan it throws me this error:

Error: building account: could not acquire access token to parse claims: running Azure CLI: exit status 1: ERROR: Account has previously been signed out of this application.. Status: Response_Status.Status_AccountUnusable, Error code: 0, Tag: 540940121

I ran az account get-access-token and token is there and valid

I ran az ad signed-in-user show it doesn't shows the currently logged in user

The above issues are only in my local Windows 11 PC at home.

It's not a company laptop. Not domain joined. No network restrictions.

I have tried:

• az clear; az login; az login --tenant; az login --scope;
• uninstalling and installing Azure CLI
• deleting .azure folder
• deleting

Will appreciate your support as it's stopping me to use VS Code to work with Terraform.

Thanks,

Gagan

Answer 1

I was able to resolve this issue by following this trick from this https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/WAM-error:-Account-has-previously-been/10700816#T-N10735701

Delete all the files under this folder. C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\IdentityCache

I still need to sign in to Azure CLI by specifying the --tenant explicitly: az login --tenant <tenant_id>