| 1 | ## Authentication
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| 3 | Currently token based and cert based authentication mechanisms are supported in Xplat CLI.
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| 5 | * **Token** based authentication works in both **ASM** (Azure Service Management) & **ARM** (Azure Resource Manager) mode
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| 6 | * Currently, only organizational accounts are supported. One cannot use an outlook, gmail, etc. account for authentication
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| 8 | ```azure login -u $username -p $password```
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| 10 | * **Cert** based authentication works only in **ASM** mode
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| 11 | * Download the publishsettings file (This cmd opens a browser in your machine)```azure account download```
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| 12 | * One can manually download the publishettings file from [here](https://manage.windowsazure.com/publishsettings/index?client=xplat)
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| 13 | * Import the downloaded publishsettings file ```azure account import $path-to-publish-settings-file```
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| 15 | ## Listing the subscriptions and Setting them
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| 17 | One can list the available subscriptions associated with an account and set a subscription as the default one
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| 19 | ```
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| 20 | azure account list
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| 21 | azure account set "Subscription Name"
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| 22 | ```
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| 24 | ## Different Modes
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| 25 | One can flip between two modes of execution: **ASM | ARM**
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| 27 | ```azure config mode [asm|arm] ```
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