honor `OCI_CLI_PROFILE` in `oci session authenticate`

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Bug
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python
Domain
cli

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Locate the Python entry point for oci session authenticate and trace how --profile-name and OCI_CLI_PROFILE are resolved. Verify that setting only the environment variable avoids the prompt and that the generated config and example command use that profile name.

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Description

when doing

export OCI_CLI_PROFILE=oc1.ssh
oci session authenticate --region <region>

it still asks you for the profile name

...
Enter the name of the profile you would like to create:

so OCI_CLI_PROFILE should set --profile-name to get a flow like this

❯ oci session authenticate --region us-ashburn-1 --profile-name oc1.ssh
...
Config written to: /Users/ivang/.oci/config

    Try out your newly created session credentials with the following example command:

    oci iam region list --config-file /Users/ivang/.oci/config --profile oc1.ssh
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