Connecting to Team Foundation Service with command line

Question

I am trying to connect to tfs in the cloud with the command line but i don't manage to authenticate.

I'm using "Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\\Common7\\IDE\\TF.exe"

I'm using the alternate credentials described in https://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/2012/aug-27/

Like this :

tf workspaces 
   /computer:* 
   /format:brief 
   /collection:https://*****.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection /login:****,****

But I get ... TF30063: You are not authorized to access https://*****.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I have tested this with my online tfs account able to reproduce the error you got.

Steps

1. I tried the command I was connecting fine and got the workspace info.
2. I Closed all browsers VS and the clear all browser caches.
3. Open VS and connect through team explorer and provide wrong credentials
4. Close VS and try the command got the error TF30063
5. Open VS and connected to visualstudio.com tfs with correct credentials and close VS
6. Tried the command again and it works
7. Tried command with incorrect credentials still it works :)

Conclusion

I think the credentials are cached what ever credential we supply in the command line is ignored for team foundation service.

Further search took me to this link and I think it explains the same situation

For on premises TFS

The credentials provided in tf workspaces /login: 100% in effect