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Way to find out Azure user name using Python SDK

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, python

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The issue names no repository file, test, or SDK entry point. Start by checking how the Python SDK authenticates the running Azure account and comparing it with az account show; done means identifying or documenting an equivalent way to obtain user.name for the compute-instance use case.

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Description

I'm trying to programatically find out the user name of the Azure account running a script. Use case is to log certain info to user specific directories in default datastore.
I can find the info using Azure CLI, running on a compute instance, e.g.
az account show returns a JSON which has user.name attribute. Is there any equivalent API in the Python SDK?

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