`az extension add` should give an option to install extension for all users (i.e. at a machine level)

[gauravsaralMs]

az extension add should give an option to install extension for all users (i.e. at a machine level)

Currently it is possible that azure cli is installed for all users in the machine but extension installation is bound only to a particular user..

it will be great if there can be an option to install extension at machine level instead of just user level

[yugangw-msft]

Before we get more user up-votes to make it mainline, the work around is to leverage the Azure_Extension_dir to set to any folders which can be accessed by any users

[timwebster9]

Before we get more user up-votes to make it mainline, the work around is to leverage the Azure_Extension_dir to set to any folders which can be accessed by any users

Hi @yugangw-msft

How do you leverage the Azure_Extension_dir exactly?

[jecarlsen]

Please disregard my attempt at the bottom of this post.
I managed to pre-install extensions using the ENV variable, thanks to #9831 (comment)
Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/azure-cli-extensions-overview?view=azure-cli-latest#install-extensions

Sample extension-install for all-users from my dockerfile for other who seek the same problem:

WORKDIR /opt
RUN mkdir azcliextensions
RUN az extension add --name azure-devops \
    && az extension add --name dev-spaces \
    && az extension add --name resource-graph \
    && az extension add --name managementpartner

Old deprecated problem - Please IGNORE:
I'd like to upvote as well.
Unfortunately it prevents me from pre-installing the extension for my vscode docker containers remote dev box.
My own attempt both using user and none-user fails with "INFO: Suppress exception There are no active accounts."

Sample build:
Step 11/13 : USER vscode Step 12/13 : RUN az extension add --name azure-devops --verbose && az extension add --name dev-spaces && az extension add --name resource-graph && az extension add --name managementpartner ---> Running in 7b55fbc711f9 INFO: Suppress exception There are no active accounts. INFO: Suppress exception Please run 'az login' to setup account. INFO: command ran in 8.572 seconds.
It appears az-cli requires interactive usage before we can actually use the 'extension add' command.

[yonzhan]

add to S164.