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VM Create prompting for admin username #2010

@derekbekoe

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@derekbekoe

My admin username was invalid and instead of throwing an error and exiting, it prompted me to enter it. It felt inconsistent with how usually, we simply throw an error.

$ az vm create -g debekoe-a4 -n mytestvm --image UbuntuLTS
Cannot use admin username: root. Admin username should be at least 6 characters and cannot be 'root'
Admin Username: ...

However, when I didn't have an SSH public key available, I received an error and there was no prompt:

An RSA key file or key value must be supplied to SSH Key Value. You can use --generate-ssh-keys to let CLI generate one for you.

If the admin username is invalid, should it not prompt and return an error such as below?

$ az vm create -g debekoe-a4 -n mytestvm --image UbuntuLTS
Cannot use admin username: root. Admin username should be at least 6 characters and cannot be 'root'. Specify admin username with --admin-username.

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