Is it possible to use Graph Explorer with application permissions i.e. authenticate with client_credentials as the grat_type?
I only know of the way to log in with an account which would be using delegated permissions.
If that is not possible can I at least use a bearer token that I created in Postman for example? I only see the option to get the token of the currently signed-in user to carry out further tests.
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My I am trying to deploy azure AD to my application because I want to expose some of my APIs to users but I need to make sure only people that are authorized can use the resource.
I have never worked with azure AD before and I am a little lost in all the documentation.
What I need is to be able to recover a token on behalf of the user in order to authenticate them. The application does not have any webpages and I do not want to introduce any. I want to be able to grab the token, authenticate the user, and then release the resource. I expect that the endpoint will be accessed through python, java or postman.
Example of basic flow:
call security function/api in app
validate user cred (or any other type of validation)
return token if authenticated
validate token and return response
5.authentication allows user to call apis
I have just explored the authorization code pattern that azure AD offers but this requires an interactive step from what I was able to test so its no good.
I would like to be able to do something like the example flow
In case my question hasn't clued you in I am very new to this so any help is appreciated
Thanks in advance
I agree with #Gopal you can make use of client credentials flow that does not require user interaction to call an API.
You just need to enter Azure AD client application’s ID, Secret, scope to generate the access token and use that access token to call the API via Postman or in your code.
I created one Asp.net core API in VS studio and used Azure Ad authentication to call the API.
I tried accessing this API via Postman App with different flows that you can try :-
Client Credentials flow:-
GET https://login.microsoftonline.com/<tenantID>/oauth2/v2.0/token
grant_type:client_credentials
client_id:<appID>
client_secret:<secret>
scope: https://management.azure.com/.default
Results :-
API can be accessed by the Access token generated by the client app with its secret and scope.
Alternatively, you can make use of Implicit flow which will ask for user credentials via browser.
Implicit flow :-
Here, Your log in page pops up while asking for access token and you need to enter user credentials to get access token and fetch API.
Get the token and hit the token to fetch the API like below :-
Browser Pop up:-
Access Token:-
Now, copy our API URL from browser and try to access the API :-
Results :-
You can find the code samples below :-
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/sample-v2-code#web-api
We have a problem consenting permissions and obtaining access tokens to call MSGraph API. Our product is like follows:
We have an API that works with MSGraph. Until now, we have been using Aplication permissions to access resources as mail and calendar.
We would like to start using Task To-Do API and it only supports Delegated permissions.
Our API works with multiple tenant and multiple users in each tenant.
We use admin consent to give all necesary permissions and generate a token aftewards to make requests to MSGraph (Aplication permissions endpoints). With these new changes, is there a way to generate a token valid for To-Do API directly from an administrator, or is mandatory that each user signs in to create a personal auth token valid for this API? We would like to avoid the proccess of user sign in as our API is meant to work behind another application we do not develop after administrator has given consent.
Thank you in advance
In your case, you are using client credentials flow and with that you can not have signed in user or delegated permissions as MS Graph Todo APIs only support delegated permissions.
For you to use the To-Do Graph APIs, you have to can incorporate user signin. If this not possible in your scenario, then you can upvote this feature request - Allow Graph API calls to work with both todo tasks and plannerTasks using application permissions
I am wondering if there is anyway to check if the entered username and password is correct despite of enforcing multi factor authentication in Azure Active Directory?
I have set up an app with application permission(with admin consent) as well as delegated permission and is able to test both approach using ConfidentialClient and PublicClient using MSAL library.
I am not able to run my web form app in IIS with the PublicClient approach which is interactive and displays you a popup for the Microsoft login. So, the only approach I see here is to use app-only authentication.(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/exchange-web-services/how-to-authenticate-an-ews-application-by-using-oauth )
I can use the confidential client(app only) since I have all the required admin consents granted to get the OAuth token and then impersonate the user to access to EWS managed api.
But the requirement is the user should enter their outlook password in the webform app before loading their emails(from EWS Managed API which needs OAuth token).
At this point I am not sure what to do next. Please help. Also let me know if you need more information.
For more reference why I am no able to use delegated authentication: Why app is throwing error in test environment but working fine in local machine using ASP.NET Web Forms and MSAL?
Per my understanding, you want to check the username and password by Azure AD first and using the confidential client to call APIs on behalf of the user.
This way is something hacking, but I think it works for this scenario. Just try the request below:
POST https://login.microsoftonline.com/<tenant id>/oauth2/v2.0/token
Request Body:
client_id=<confidential client app id>
&Client_secret=<confidential client app sec>
&grant_type=password
&scope=https://graph.microsoft.com/user.read
&username=<username>
&password=<password>
If the user typed the wrong user name and password, the response would be:
If username and password are all right, the response report the MFA related info:
Is there any way of authenticating a user via the Office 365 REST API, without registering an application first?
For example, the documentation of Microsoft Graph has numerous authentication scenarios, including how an application can
Get access on behalf of a user
but there is no such scenario for a user calling the REST API with some credentials (e.g., username and password) and gets authentication tokens as a response, so that they can subsequently use the rich functionality provided.
The Azure Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL) provide user-level authentication functionality, but they do not expose the REST API.
There is no way to call the Microsoft Graph without registering an app first. All calls to the graph are authenticated using a OAuth2 flow (of which there are several) and all require an app to be registered.
For your question, I think we can use background daemons or services to get authorize the user.We can use the following steps:
Get access without a user.
We can refer to this document to learning more information.
2.Authorize the user
When we get the user's profile by using the access token in the step one, then we can authorize him by checking him is exist in our system.
I went thru at Microsoft OneDrive API tutorials and they are only guiding people how to connect OneDrive with UI mode. Which means there will be a prompt asking user to authenticate access to the OneDrive (OAuth2). What if I want this to be skipped, or the other way meaning, I want everything authenticate in silent mode (service mode)? Any guidance?
https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-sdk-dotnet-msa-auth-adapter
If you want to access OneDrive in the context of a user, you need to use the interactive OAuth2 flow to be granted consent and receive an access_token and refresh_token. This is only required when initially setting up the configuration.
Once you have a refresh_token available, that can be silently redeemed for a new access_token.
If you want to make a background task / Windows Service that stays connected to OneDrive in the context of a user, you would need to have an interactive configuration experience to "Add a OneDrive Account" and go through the OAuth2 flow. Once that has been completed, the service can use the stored refresh_token to generate new access_tokens and make API calls.
There are a few scenarios where the refresh_token will become invalid, that you would need to prompt for credentials again:
The user changes their password
The user revokes access to the application
An enterprise configures an expiration period on refresh_tokens (OneDrive for Business only)
Your service would need to handle these scenarios and have a way to prompt that additional configuration was required.