FYI: Azure CLI “More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.”

If you are getting this error when using the Azure CLI commands:

More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.

1	More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.

And you run the command with the --debug switch you see something along these lines (the exact path could vary – below is from macOS M1):

  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.18.0/libexec/lib/python3.8/site-packages/adal/cache_driver.py", line 124, in _load_single_entry_from_cache
    raise AdalError('More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.')
adal.adal_error.AdalError: More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.

File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.18.0/libexec/lib/python3.8/site-packages/adal/cache_driver.py", line 124, in _load_single_entry_from_cache

raise AdalError('More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.')

adal.adal_error.AdalError: More than one token matches the criteria. The result is ambiguous.

Try doing an az account clear and then logging in again. That helped me today.

I have a couple of Azure accounts and use two functions like these in my .bash_profile to switch between work and personal accounts:

function az_login_work {
        export AZURE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.Azure
        az login --use-device-code
}

function az_login_personal {
        export AZURE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.Azure-personal
        az login --use-device-code && az account set -s "Free Trial 1"
}

function az_login_work {

export AZURE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.Azure

az login --use-device-code

}

function az_login_personal {

export AZURE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.Azure-personal

az login --use-device-code && az account set -s "Free Trial 1"

}

I guess something messed up somewhere and hence these ambiguous errors.