I’ve found that Microsoft’s Azure AD MSAL Extensions for .NET don’t seem to work very well under WSL2. In particular, there is this this issue that’s reportedly been fixed as of November 2020 but, even with Azure.Identity v1.3.0, it remains a problem for me. The error can look something like value cannot be null: attributeValue1 or Unable to load shared library 'libsecret-1.so.0'.

I found that I needed 2 fixes:

1. Wherever you create new DefaultAzureCredentialOptions, you should also set the property ExcludeSharedTokenCacheCredential to true. For example:

   var credentials = new DefaultAzureCredential
   (
       new DefaultAzureCredentialOptions
       {
           ExcludeSharedTokenCacheCredential = SharedUtilities.IsLinuxPlatform(),
           // ...your other options
       }
   );
   

2. In your WSL environment install libsecret-1-dev. In Ubuntu for example, run the command sudo apt install libsecret-1-dev. This will add libsecret-1.so.0 to your system so that MSAL can find it.

Alternatively you can roll back to Azure.Identity v1.2.2, which I can confirm was the last version without as many of these issues.

If you’re still having trouble you may also want to check that:

• Azure CLI is properly logged in. On WSL it’s easier to use az login --use-device-code and follow the instructions.
• The ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable is set to Development.
• You have the appropriate .NET (Core) SDK installed. The latest is 5.0.