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honor OCI_CLI_PROFILE in oci session authenticate #1091
Description
when doing
export OCI_CLI_PROFILE=oc1.ssh
oci session authenticate --region <region>it still asks you for the profile name
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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
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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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riyaKaushik576 commentedon Jul 9, 2026
Hi @scratchmex! Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will be working on this internally
PechimuthuMithil commentedon Jul 14, 2026
Hello @scratchmex !
The
OCI_CLI_PROFILEenv var is intended to specify which profile OCI CLI should load from config when executing CLI commands. For oci session authenticate, however, the command is responsible for creating or updating a profile. Since the profile name can already be provided explicitly via the--profile-nameoption, supportingOCI_CLI_PROFILEin this command would not provide additional functionality. Once the profile has been created,OCI_CLI_PROFILEcan then be used to select that profile when running subsequent OCI CLI commands.