We have a C# web app for new customer intake, at the end of which the user enters a password value we apply to their new Active Directory user object when we invoke the userPrincipal .NET method to create their user object. Our code also creates an account in our Azure AD tenant, with the correct values (ImmutableID) set for Azure AD Connect to import and join both accounts on its next pass (30 minutes AADC cycle wait time not acceptable for our requirements). We sync our password hashes from on-premise AD to Azure AD, and we have password complexity enabled in AD, and we enabled and added our own vocabulary to the Banned Words (substrings) facility in Azure AD. We are considering installing the MS "Password Protection" service on our DC's that will also apply Azure Banned Words checking when passwords are updated on-premise.
To keep this question short, we really would like to pre-validate the user entered passwords against all the password policies, including the banned words list (assume we install that service on all our on-prem DCs), but we can't find a method or service in .NET that will pre-validate that a proposed password passes all the active password policies. Our users tend to use Azure Self Service Password Reset, on-premise password changes later on are rare. But in the C# programming, it appears you have to actually request an Add of a new AD username to get .NET to evaluate the password value and signal status back, from the userPrincipal method in .NET
Anyone got any tricky ideas how to get a password pre-validated against AD password policies without the context of adding an actual new user, but assuming that the sAMAccountName that will be submitted does NOT yet exist in Active Directory? We thought about creating a temporary AD user with hash or base64 of a GUID for a unique temporary usernames, get any password evaluation feedback back from .NET, then delete the temporary user object, but that's a lot of overhead just to check a password, would trigger replications and generate beaucoup EventViewer and AD-AuditPlus log events, much junk network traffic. Thank you.
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lets say I have two on-premise domains (DomainA.org, domainB.org) and one tenant (domainA.onmicrosoft.com). Both domains are sync thanks to Azure AD Connect, so user from domainA can log to office.com, there is no problem. Hoever user from domainB getting this "Error validating credentials due to invalid username or password.", and when I changed password from portal.office.com for this user from domainB. I can log with this new password, but only to office365 services, its not sync to On-prem.
And another wierd thing is, that I cant change password for users from domainA.
Do You know where the problem is?
Thanks
I understand you have synced your 2 domains to Azure AD through Azure AD connect . Initially you have registered both the domain in Azure AD and verified both. Kindly check what kind of authentication you were using for Domain A since you were not able to change the password from Azure End. If you have federated that domain it is not possible to change from the cloud. If you were using password hash synchronization then the authentication will happen if cloud and you can change for managed domain.
I request you to go through this article about password writeback . When you are getting an error message while logging before resetting the password kindly note the correlation ID and time stamp and need to get a support ticket since it will be due to multiple reasons.
We are currently testing the feature EnforceCloudPasswordPolicyForPasswordSyncedUsers (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-password-hash-synchronization#public-preview-of-the-enforcecloudpasswordpolicyforpasswordsyncedusers-feature) which makes it possible for a tenant to comply to the Azure AD password expiration policy when a user password has expired.
By default, If the customer uses Password Hash Synchronization (PHS), the value DisablePasswordExpiration is set for every user. Which means that If a password is expired on-premise, the user is still able to make use of any Azure AD integrated services. Since we want them to comply the password expiration policy set in AD/AAD, we want this feature configured.
I have this feature working in a LAB environment with a demo M365 tenant.
Situation LAB: 1 AAD Connect Server - 1 M365 tenant - PHS enabled - Specific OU synced - ForcePasswordChangeOnLogOn feature enabled
When I create a new user with the feature enabled, it sets the value to DisablePasswordExpiration, when I initiate a password change on-premise it changes the value from DisablePasswordExpiration to None as expected.
Now the challenge, in the dev environment of the customer.
Situation: 1 AAD Connect Server - 1 M365 tenant - PHS enabled - Specific OU synced - ForcePasswordChangeOnLogOn feature enabled
When I create a new user, it does not have any value set. It should have the DisablePasswordExpiration set, but it doesn't. When I initiate a sync between on-prem and AAD, the value doesn't appear.
When I change the password on-prem for an existing user WITH the value DisablePasswordExpiration value set, it changes the value to "None". So in the above scenario for the feature does not work for newly created users, but does works for existing users.
The feature EnforceCloudPasswordPolicyForPasswordSyncedUsers is enabled in both cases.
I'm working on improving the user experience for our org when logging into snowflake. We have adfs sso enabled and are provisioning mapping users to roles using azure ad. I had a colleague attempt to sign in with SSO who didn't have a user account created in snowflake and they were greeted with
"The signed in user <user#email.com> is not assigned to a role for the application (Snowflake)".
My question is, is it possible to have users sign into snowflake without being mapped to a default role, perhaps only have the public role assigned, and without being synced with azure ad.
If it is, i'd appreciate any pointers to documentation i can reference. The goal is to get all users that can SSO, to by default be able to login
AD group syncing occurs every 40 minutes in Microsoft, and I don't believe it's possible to force a sync or change this time frame. In addition, like the OP mentioned Snowflake cannot connect to an on-prem ADFS server so all users must be in Azure AD.
AD group syncing is somewhat configurable via the "Scope" (see Step 15 of this tutorial)
If your Scope is set to "Sync only assigned users and groups", you can either
Change the scope to "Sync all users and groups" (may cause issues if you don't want to import all this data into Snowflake)
or
Confirm that your desired users' AD group is one of those assigned to be synced to Snowflake (requires manually assigning these users, or that all of these users are part of the same AD group that you choose to sync to Snowflake).
By seeing the error its not allowing user who don't have appropriate role for the application.
In these why can't we create generic stored procedure to assign default role and instance to new user based on the group they belong to.! Each time if we add any new user then we have to run stored procedure to assign default role and object prior to his login to snowflake.
I have an application that needs to sync periodically to my directory service (OpenLDAP or AD).
To do so, it is necessary to bind an admin account with a DN and password, to access users on LDAP.
As far as I understand, there is the possibility of using anonymous, however for security reasons, its use is not recommended.
Since this periodic synchronization is done automatically by a routine (hourly), I need to store in addition to the account DN, also admin password in the application database.
However, passwords are usually sent to be authenticated in plaintext against
directory service (within a secure SSL / TLS connection) and the directory service itself that finds its password stored in plaintext or some hash (md5, sha-1, etc.)
How to ensure the security of admin password stored in database for synchronization with LDAP? Or, is there a best practice to implement a sync periodic using LDAP?
Applications examples that require password (admin) to read LDAP.
Moodle
(https://docs.moodle.org/37/en/LDAP_authentication#Bind_settings)
Sugar CRM (https://support.sugarcrm.com/Knowledge_Base/Password_Management/Configuring_LDAP_Authentication_Using_Active_Directory/#Prerequisites)
But it does not clear how the password is stored.
It's true that anonymous bind is disabled by default in Active Directory. However, if you are just reading, you don't need an "admin" account. You need any account. The account does not need to have any special permissions. You just need something that can authenticate to the domain.
But if you're going to be authenticating users, then you will need to get the user's password, and you can just use the user's credentials to read from LDAP. That would be true for both AD and OpenLDAP.
I have a multitenant ASP.NET application using OpenIdConnect and Azure AD as an Identity provider for Office 365. When the user is authenticated I receive my claims in ClaimsPrincipal.Current.
I wanted to identify a user and store this id reference in my database. I asked this question.
It was replied that
When trying to identify a user uniquely [NameIdentifier] should be your go-to choice.
But it seems that the NameIdentifier claim, http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/nameidentifier
depends on the application. Precisely, if I create another application in Azure AD then, the NameIdentifier will not be the same for the same real Office365 user. Keep in mind that the we may have to create another Azure AD manifest (because we could need other scopes) and we should be able to find back the same end-users.
Meanwhile, I remarked another claim: ObjectIdentifier http://schemas.microsoft.com/identity/claims/objectidentifier
It seems that ObjectIdentifier, is the same for all Azure AD-secured application for a given Office 365 user.
Can you explain precisely the difference between those two claims? And more importantly, can you confirm that the ObjectIdentifier can be used as an "universal" identifier for a user in any Office 365 subscription.
Precisely, if I create another application in Azure AD then, the NameIdentifier will not be the same for the same real Office365 user.
I made a quick test as following:
Register a multi-tenant-webapp and single-tenant-webapp in AD Contoso.
Log in with user1#contoso.onmicrosoft.com and get the name identifier in both web applications, it turns out the name identifier are the same in both applications. So the name identifier should be able to identify users cross applications, but it can not be used to identify the user in Azure AD.
For the object identifier, it is a GUID which you can used to identify a user in Azure AD. For example, you can use object identifier to query the user in Azure AD.
Powershell:
$msolcred = get-credential
connect-msolservice -credential $msolcred
get-msoluser -ObjectId "{guid:object_identifier}"
And more importantly, can you confirm that the ObjectIdentifier can be used as an "universal" identifier for a user in any Office 365 subscription.
Based on my understanding, the object identifier is a GUID which can identify for a user in Office 365 subscriptions.
Or to put it another way:
The NameIdentifier is the GUID of the Application which is registered in Azure AD. This won't change whether it's a single or multi-tenant application. It won't matter if you are using client credentials (i.e. AppId and AppSecret) to authenticate AS the application or using logging using real user credentials (i.e. delegated), the NameIdentifier will remain the same.
The ObjectIdentifier is the User Principal Name (UPN) for the user when using delegation or Service Principal Name (SPN) of the application when using client creds.
The reason you see different ObjectIdentifier values when an application is multi-tenant is that there is a separate and unique SPN in EACH TENANT which points back to the ApplicationGUID in the tenant where the application is registered. This SPN is used to assign rights to the application against resources in each tenant.