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az vm create doesn't work if the user specifies an admin password + ssh key; gives an unhelpful error message

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$ az vm create --name=colemick-nixosdev1 --resource-group=colemick-nixosdev1 --admin-username=cole --admin-password=redacted '--ssh-key-value=...' --size=Standard_D16s_v3 --image=/subscriptions/aff271ee-e9be-4441-b9bb-42f5af4cbaeb/resourceGroups/aznixos/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/nixos-image-16.09.1694.019dcc3-x86_64-linux-vhd

az vm create: error: incorrect usage for authentication-type 'password': [--admin-username USERNAME] --admin-password PASSWORD

and then it works if I removed the SSH key.

The error message is unhelpful.
This should be allowed…

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

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tjprescottcommented, May 7, 2018

@colemickens if the API has no issue with it, I see no reason not to accept this change. I think the original validation was likely based on the Portal behavior. cc/ @yugangw-msft, @johanste

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adewaleocommented, Nov 15, 2018

@Trotts, @colemickens. I have started looking into this issue. The fix should be out in the release after this upcoming release.

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