Reuse one az login per Azure credential set

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Stacked on #637.

Summary

Every Azure cloud_exec command ran a full az login before the real command. AWS and GCP pass credentials through the environment and spawn one process per command; az has no equivalent, so Azure paid two process starts per command, and the multi-subscription fan-out paid a login per call on top. This keeps one logged-in AZURE_CONFIG_DIR per set of credentials and reuses it.

How it works

• New utils/cloud/azure_login_cache.py. The directory name is an HMAC (keyed by FLASK_SECRET_KEY) of tenant id, client id and client secret. A caller can only reach a directory by already holding the credentials stored in it, and those are still resolved per request through Vault/RBAC. Org members sharing a connection share one login; different orgs, the read-only vs agent service principal, and a rotated secret each get their own directory.
• cloud_exec (single path) and _cloud_exec_azure_multi_subscription call attach/ensure. A warm fan-out spawns no login at all. The login runs under a file lock, so concurrent cold requests log in once.
• If a command fails because the login is gone or predates a newly connected subscription, it logs in again and retries once. The fan-out does this once per batch and re-runs only the failed subscriptions.
• Commands that write CLI-local state (az login, logout, account set|clear, config, configure, extension, cloud, ...) keep a private throwaway directory.
• Directories are 0700, expire after 30 minutes idle (a module constant, like the other timing knobs; no env var), and are refreshed after 8 hours. The cache is off under pod isolation, where az runs in a pod the server filesystem cannot see.
• setup_azure_environment_isolated is unchanged; discovery deletes the directory it returns.
• Two guardrail signatures block commands that name the cache directory or the service_principal_entries / msal_token_cache files, including through globs.

Credential isolation

az writes the service principal secret in plaintext inside the config dir and refuses to run without it (load_entry in azure/cli/core/auth/identity.py), so the secret now rests on disk for the idle window instead of for a single command. The directory is keyed by the credentials, never by user, and nothing here decides who may use credentials.

Measured (local, 2 subscriptions)

• az login cost 2.3 s per command before. Warm commands after this change log Azure login reused from cache and run zero logins.
• The remaining time per command is the safety judge (2 to 6 s, on the base command and again on each subscription copy) plus about 1 s of actual az work. Not changed here.

Tests

• tests/utils/test_azure_login_cache.py (new): warm path, concurrent cold requests, isolation per credential set, root and symlink checks, local-state commands, idle and max-age expiry, sweep, relogin dedupe, pod-isolation off.
• tests/connectors/test_azure_multi_subscription.py: warm fan-out spawns no login and keeps the shared directory; a dead cached login heals with one relogin; cloud_exec never deletes a cached directory.
• tests/security/test_credential_creation.py: the new signatures.
• End to end in the chatbot container with a fake az: cold 2 processes, warm 1, account set in a private directory, login-lost self-heal, cache off.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Azure CLI logins are now cached and reused across commands for the same credentials, reducing repeated authentication.
  • Stale or failed cached sessions automatically trigger a fresh login.

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Walkthrough

Changes

The pull request adds credential-scoped Azure CLI login caching. It integrates cache reuse and relogin handling into Azure command execution, adds credential-access detection rules and tests, and exposes configuration and documentation for cache idle time.

Azure CLI login reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache lifecycle and isolation server/utils/cloud/azure_login_cache.py, server/tests/utils/test_azure_login_cache.py	Adds credential-isolated cache directories, locking, expiration, sweeping, relogin detection, cleanup, and lifecycle tests.
Azure execution and retry integration server/chat/backend/agent/tools/cloud_exec_tool.py, server/tests/connectors/test_azure_multi_subscription.py	Uses cached authentication for single- and multi-subscription execution, retries relogin-worthy failures once, and preserves cached directories during cleanup.
Credential access detection server/utils/security/signature_match.py, server/tests/security/test_credential_creation.py	Detects access to Azure login-cache directories and credential files while allowing ordinary Azure commands.
Configuration and operational documentation .env.example, docker-compose*.yml, deploy/helm/aurora/values.yaml, website/docs/configuration/environment.md	Adds AZURE_LOGIN_CACHE_IDLE_SECONDS, defaulting to 1800; 0 disables login reuse.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant cloud_exec_tool
  participant CachedLogin
  participant AzureCLI
  participant SubscriptionWorker
  cloud_exec_tool->>CachedLogin: attach cached Azure login
  CachedLogin->>AzureCLI: reuse cache or run az login
  cloud_exec_tool->>SubscriptionWorker: execute subscription-scoped commands
  SubscriptionWorker->>AzureCLI: run Azure command
  AzureCLI-->>cloud_exec_tool: result or stale-login failure
  cloud_exec_tool->>CachedLogin: refresh login once
  CachedLogin-->>SubscriptionWorker: retry failed command

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Non-isolated deployments can persist credentials across requests, and an authorized Azure command can overwrite the reused login. Resolve these isolation risks before merging.

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- Around line 201-214: Update the Azure login-cache flow around attach and
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