az configure | spelling error in parameter name is not throwing an error

[dbradish-microsoft]

Issue #1: It looks like a customer can enter any value as a default. "subscription" isn't even a supported config value according to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/azure-cli-configuration?view=azure-cli-latest#cli-configuration-with-az-configure.

Issue #2: We allow for resource group defaults using az config set, az configure --defaults, and az config param-persist. This actually then changes the default subscription. Yet, if a customer does a "list" or "show", they only see the resource group value. This is very confusing when they have set their subscription value, then over-write themselves with a resource group default.

[yonzhan]

error handling in az config

[jiasli]

az config set is designed as a util to modify ~/.azure/config, same as editing it manually with a text editor. Currently there is not check on the config option name.

az configure --defaults is deprecated, please use az config set defaults.group=xxx. Meanwhile, the correct command to change selected subscription is another command az account set --subscription xxx.

[dbradish-microsoft]

@jiasli, The following article, Manage Azure subscriptions with the Azure CLI was published to address the config confusion, I am not confident that az configure --defaults has been removed from all docs, but I'll create a work item and take a look.