force:auth:sfdxurl command stopped working in January 14 release

Summary

Our CI system pulls the latest tarball of SFDX and installs it during each build. Starting today, the build is failing to authorize the DevHub org via the force:auth:sfdxurl command

I have read the Release Notes for today’s release and it explicitly says that the legacy commands should continue to work.

Additionally, I have read #787 but that specifically calls out issues using NPM installs of SFDX. This issue is present in the tarball install (https://developer.salesforce.com/media/salesforce-cli/sfdx-linux-amd64.tar.xz)

>sfdx force:auth:sfdxurl
 »   Warning: force:auth:sfdxurl is not a sfdx command.
Did you mean force:auth:logout? [y/n]: n
 »   Error: Run sfdx help force for a list of available commands.

Steps To Reproduce:

• Install today’s release of SFDX (either via tarball or sfdx update)
• Run sfdx force:auth:sfdx:url

Expected result

I should be able to store an auth URL for an existing org in my SFDX client

Actual result

 »   Warning: force:auth:sfdxurl is not a sfdx command.
Did you mean force:auth:logout? [y/n]: n

SFDX CLI Version(to find the version of the CLI engine run sfdx --version):

>sfdx plugins --core
@oclif/plugin-autocomplete 0.1.5 (core)
@oclif/plugin-commands 1.3.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-help 3.2.1 (core)
@oclif/plugin-not-found 1.2.4 (core)
@oclif/plugin-plugins 1.9.5 (core)
@oclif/plugin-update 1.3.10 (core)
@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 1.7.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-which 1.0.3 (core)
@salesforce/sfdx-trust 3.6.0 (core)
alias 1.1.5 (core)
analytics 1.12.1 (core)
auth 1.4.6 (core)
config 1.2.3 (core)
etcopydata 0.6.3-Beta (beta)
generator 1.1.3 (core)
salesforcedx 50.13.3 (core)
├─ limits 1.0.2 (core)
├─ user 1.0.5 (core)
├─ schema 1.0.3 (core)
├─ @salesforce/sfdx-plugin-lwc-test 0.1.7 (core)
├─ salesforce-alm 50.13.1 (core)
├─ templates 50.4.0 (core)
├─ apex 0.1.4 (core)
└─ custom-metadata 1.0.11 (core)
sfdx-cli 7.84.2 (core)

Windows 10 Pro and Ubuntu 18

[daveespo]

It’s not that we don’t have a workaround, it’s that we have tooling and scripts and some are not as easily changed as others. This change was supposed to be phased in as the Release Notes indicate.

[ab-ha]

@daveespo the most recent release of the CLI has moved force:auth commands to the auth namespace … i.e. drop the force: https://github.com/forcedotcom/cli/blob/main/releasenotes/README.md#50133-january-14-2021---cli-7842 This fixed it for me.