failure accessing az cli with the below error

[tamalesimon]

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Describe the bug

Command Name
az account get-access-token

Errors:

The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:
[WinError 87] : ''
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\knack/cli.py", line 231, in invoke
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 658, in execute
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 721, in _run_jobs_serially
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 692, in _run_job
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 328, in __call__
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/commands/command_operation.py", line 121, in handler
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/command_modules/profile/custom.py", line 66, in get_access_token
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/_profile.py", line 383, in get_raw_token
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/_profile.py", line 593, in _create_credential
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/auth/identity.py", line 196, in get_user_credential
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/auth/msal_authentication.py", line 44, in __init__
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\msal/application.py", line 947, in get_accounts
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\msal/application.py", line 985, in _find_msal_accounts
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\msal_extensions/token_cache.py", line 80, in find
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\msal_extensions/token_cache.py", line 58, in _reload_if_necessary
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\msal_extensions/persistence.py", line 180, in load
  File "D:\a\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\msal_extensions/windows.py", line 114, in unprotect
OSError: [WinError 87] : ''

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Put any pre-requisite steps here...
• az account get-access-token -o {} --resource {}

Expected Behavior

Environment Summary

Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0
Python 3.10.3
Installer: MSI

azure-cli 2.35.0 *

Additional Context

[azure-client-tools-bot-prd]

Hi @tamalesimon,

This is a known issue.

Please follow #20231 (comment) to get workaround.

If you feel that further discussion is needed, please add a comment with the text /clibot unresolve to reopen the issue.

[yonzhan]

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

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[tamalesimon]

This has been resolved from here