--auth-type basic ask for personal access token

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
authentication, cli

Research direction

Reproduce the tfx.cmd extension publish command with --auth-type basic and compare it with --auth-type pat, starting by tracing how each mode handles authentication and formats a 401 response. Done means basic-auth failures no longer mention personal access tokens, while valid basic credentials still work as expected.

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Description

Area: tfx-cli bug

When I execute

tfx.cmd extension publish --json --no-color --service-url https://my-server.de/ --auth-type basic --username Myuser --password *** --vsix Pub.MyPackage-1.0.2.gen.vsix --debug-log-stream stderr

the tfx-cli returns:

error: Received response 401 (Not Authorized). Check that your personal access token is correct and hasn't expired.

I can confirm that my passed credentials are valid. Anyway I would expect that the error tells me something about a basic auth issue, not about a personal access token what I would expect when I use --auth-type pat.

Do --auth-type basic works correct?

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