WARNING: The provided service principal secret will be included in the 'AzureRmContext.json' file

[DK]

How do I fix the below?   Thsi is windows server 2019 and I added everyone with full control permissions to .\Azure.

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WARNING: The provided service principal secret will be included in the 'AzureRmContext.json' file found in the user
profile ( C:\Users\username01\.Azure ). Please ensure that this directory has appropriate protections.
Connect-AzAccount : The provided account XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX does not have access to subscription ID
"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX". Please try logging in with different credentials or a different subscription
ID.
At C:\Packages\Application01\Publish-Application01.ps1:577 char:9
+     if (Connect-AzAccount -Environment AzureXXXXXXXXX -ServicePrin ...
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Connect-AzAccount], PSInvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Profile.ConnectAzureRmAccountCommand

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dsk

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@DK wrote:

I added everyone with full control permissions to .\Azure.

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That is pretty much the opposite of the meaning of the Warning:

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@DK wrote:

WARNING: The provided service principal secret will be included in the 'AzureRmContext.json' file found in the user
profile ( C:\Users\username01\.Azure ). Please ensure that this directory has appropriate protections.

You are apparently connecting to Azure with Connect-AzAccount using a Service Principal. The Secret (which equals to a password) is getting saved as plaintext in the user's profile. If you add Everyone with Full Control permissions to that folder, you are not protecting it. Just make sure that no other users can access that folder. The default user profile permissions should be sufficient for that.

You can disable the saving of credentials for this PowerShell session using 

Disable-AzContextAutosave -Scope Process

or just 

Disable-AzContextAutosave​

to disable it for the current user.