diff --git a/cmd/root/root.go b/cmd/root/root.go
index 0ca69aedd..310ca01ce 100644
--- a/cmd/root/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root/root.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"runtime/debug"
-	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -170,37 +169,6 @@ Stack Trace:
 	return err
 }
 
-// We want child telemetry processes to inherit environment variables like $HOME or $HTTPS_PROXY
-// because they influence auth resolution.
-func inheritEnvVars() []string {
-	base := os.Environ()
-	out := []string{}
-	authEnvVars := auth.EnvVars()
-
-	// Remove any existing auth environment variables. This is done because
-	// the CLI offers multiple modalities of configuring authentication like
-	// `--profile` or `DATABRICKS_CONFIG_PROFILE` or `profile: <profile>` in the
-	// bundle config file.
-	//
-	// Each of these modalities have different priorities and thus we don't want
-	// any auth configuration to piggyback into the child process environment.
-	//
-	// This is a precaution to avoid conflicting auth configurations being passed
-	// to the child telemetry process.
-	for _, v := range base {
-		k, _, found := strings.Cut(v, "=")
-		if !found {
-			continue
-		}
-		if slices.Contains(authEnvVars, k) {
-			continue
-		}
-		out = append(out, v)
-	}
-
-	return out
-}
-
 func uploadTelemetry(ctx context.Context, cmdStr string, startTime time.Time, exitCode int) {
 	// Nothing to upload.
 	if !telemetry.HasLogs(ctx) {
@@ -228,12 +196,6 @@ func uploadTelemetry(ctx context.Context, cmdStr string, startTime time.Time, ex
 		Logs: logs,
 	}
 
-	// Compute environment variables with the appropriate auth configuration.
-	env := inheritEnvVars()
-	for k, v := range auth.Env(ConfigUsed(ctx)) {
-		env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", k, v))
-	}
-
 	// Default to warn log level. If debug is enabled in the parent process, we set
 	// the log level to debug for the telemetry worker as well.
 	logLevel := "warn"
@@ -243,7 +205,7 @@ func uploadTelemetry(ctx context.Context, cmdStr string, startTime time.Time, ex
 
 	d := daemon.Daemon{
 		Args:        []string{"telemetry", "upload", fmt.Sprintf("--log-level=%s", logLevel)},
-		Env:         env,
+		Env:         auth.ProcessEnv(ConfigUsed(ctx)),
 		PidFilePath: os.Getenv(telemetry.PidFileEnvVar),
 		LogFile:     os.Getenv(telemetry.UploadLogsFileEnvVar),
 	}
diff --git a/libs/auth/env.go b/libs/auth/env.go
index 541b03aa2..08282e463 100644
--- a/libs/auth/env.go
+++ b/libs/auth/env.go
@@ -32,20 +32,6 @@ func Env(cfg *config.Config) map[string]string {
 	return out
 }
 
-func EnvVars() []string {
-	out := []string{}
-
-	for _, attr := range config.ConfigAttributes {
-		if len(attr.EnvVars) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		out = append(out, attr.EnvVars[0])
-	}
-
-	return out
-}
-
 func GetEnvFor(name string) (string, bool) {
 	for _, attr := range config.ConfigAttributes {
 		if attr.Name != name {
diff --git a/libs/auth/env_test.go b/libs/auth/env_test.go
index fcc071af6..5aa893e11 100644
--- a/libs/auth/env_test.go
+++ b/libs/auth/env_test.go
@@ -41,43 +41,6 @@ func TestAuthEnv(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, expected, out)
 }
 
-func TestAuthEnvVars(t *testing.T) {
-	expected := []string{
-		"DATABRICKS_HOST",
-		"DATABRICKS_CLUSTER_ID",
-		"DATABRICKS_WAREHOUSE_ID",
-		"DATABRICKS_SERVERLESS_COMPUTE_ID",
-		"DATABRICKS_METADATA_SERVICE_URL",
-		"DATABRICKS_ACCOUNT_ID",
-		"DATABRICKS_TOKEN",
-		"DATABRICKS_USERNAME",
-		"DATABRICKS_PASSWORD",
-		"DATABRICKS_CONFIG_PROFILE",
-		"DATABRICKS_CONFIG_FILE",
-		"DATABRICKS_GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT",
-		"GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS",
-		"DATABRICKS_AZURE_RESOURCE_ID",
-		"ARM_USE_MSI",
-		"ARM_CLIENT_SECRET",
-		"ARM_CLIENT_ID",
-		"ARM_TENANT_ID",
-		"ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URL",
-		"ACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_TOKEN",
-		"ARM_ENVIRONMENT",
-		"DATABRICKS_AZURE_LOGIN_APP_ID",
-		"DATABRICKS_CLIENT_ID",
-		"DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET",
-		"DATABRICKS_CLI_PATH",
-		"DATABRICKS_AUTH_TYPE",
-		"DATABRICKS_DEBUG_TRUNCATE_BYTES",
-		"DATABRICKS_DEBUG_HEADERS",
-		"DATABRICKS_RATE_LIMIT",
-	}
-
-	out := EnvVars()
-	assert.Equal(t, expected, out)
-}
-
 func TestGetEnvFor(t *testing.T) {
 	tcases := []struct {
 		name     string