Provider attempts CF Authentication slowing down overall flow of terraform

[dpittner]

When turning on logs via TF_LOG=INFO one can spot that the tf provider still attempts CF Authentication, despite it's being sunset. The retries delay any TF run by approx a minute. In order to fix this we should remove the CF Auth

2024-03-01T11:34:08.419+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 10: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:08.419+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:09.281+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 10: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:09.281+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:13.589+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 9: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:13.589+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:14.475+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 9: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:14.475+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:18.777+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 8: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:18.777+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:19.643+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 8: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:19.643+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:23.947+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 7: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:23.947+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:24.812+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 7: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:24.812+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:29.143+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 6: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:29.142+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:29.969+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 6: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:29.969+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:34.295+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 5: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:34.295+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:35.136+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 5: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:35.136+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:39.461+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 4: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:39.461+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:40.307+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 4: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:40.307+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:44.649+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 3: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:44.649+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:45.476+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 3: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:45.476+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:49.810+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 2: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:49.809+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:50.743+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 2: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:50.742+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:55.040+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 1: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:55.040+0100
2024-03-01T11:34:55.921+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 1: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:34:55.921+0100
2024-03-01T11:35:00.216+0100 [INFO]  provider.terraform-provider-ibm_v1.62.0: Retrying CF Authentication 0: timestamp=2024-03-01T11:35:00.216+0100

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Terraform CLI and Terraform IBM Provider Version

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Terraform Configuration Files

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Any usage of ibm provider with TF_LOG=INFO will show this delay

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Expected Behavior

Actual Behavior

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

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