I'm trying to create database users that are integrated with azure active directory. All of our users are guest users. I've been following multiple articles on how to create users in the SQL db but none have worked.
For example, this article: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5242/adding-users-to-azure-sql-databases/
Suggest to create users like so:
CREATE USER [name#domain.com]
FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER
WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = dbo;
This yields the error:
Principal 'name#domain.comm' could not be found or this principal type is not supported.
Googling this error lands me on stackoverflow post (https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/148325/add-active-directory-user-for-azure-sql-db):
which suggests:
CREATE USER [name_domain.com#EXT##<yourAzureSubscriptionPrefix>.onmicrosoft.com] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER
and accesses:
EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader', 'name_domain.com#EXT##<yourAzureSubscriptionPrefix>.onmicrosoft.com'
EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datawriter', 'name_domain.com#EXT##<yourAzureSubscriptionPrefix>.onmicrosoft.com'
and this does not give an error, but it also does not provide access to the database. Since I get error NT AUTHORITY/ANONYMOUS LOGIN
I also tried to create an AAD group and provide that group access, also no error here but couldn't login either.
Couple of notes:
All IP addresses are allowed on the firewall
all users have been added in sql db IAM (not sure if this is even necessary)
I've enabled Active Directory Admin in the sql server, I put the subscription admin here
This is also the users with which I created users in the SQL DB
I'm able to create native sql users without a problem
Still I'm only able to login using the Active Directory Admin, and no other user is able to login.
Any advice on how I can login to my Azure sql database using windows credentials from Azure Active Directory?
When using external users, you need to use the "mangled user principal name" when adding them.
That's this one:
CREATE USER [name_domain.com#EXT##<your-azure-ad-default-domain>.onmicrosoft.com] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER
Secondly, the users will be created only in that database; they cannot connect to master.
So you need to choose the DB to connect to.
You may also need to specify the AAD tenant id in advanced connection settings.
The reason you might need to do this is because by default an external user will login to their home tenant. Which is not the one connected to your DB. So you may need to specify the tenant to have them explicitly login against your tenant.
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I have created 2 azure security groups (Read-SQL and the second is Write-SQL) in order for them to login into multiple Azure SQL servers via SSMS using their Azure AD identity based on their group membership in order to access multiple databases on those services.
First of all I have configured an admin group on the SQL Server in our Azure tenant.
I have connected to the SQL via SSMS using my credentials and so far so good.
After that I opened a query and typed in master database
CREATE USER [SQL-READ] FROM external provider
ALTER ROLE db_datareader ADD MEMBER [SQL-READ];
(Did the same thing for Write-SQL)
only the user is created and no permission given with an error saying the user does not exist or I don't have permission.
I have Azure global administrator permission in Azure and I don't know why I get this error.
In the bottom line I would like that Read-SQL and Write-SQL will be able to login in to the SQL Server and have access to all databases within it as well as giving Read-SQL reading permissions and to Write-SQL writing permission.
I read a few Microsoft articles but I got even more confused since I don't know if I need to create a login or create a user or a contained user.
Please help
Thank you
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Read the following articles but only partial success.
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6751/azure-ad-authentication-azure-sql-databases/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/authentication-aad-configure?view=azuresql&tabs=azure-powershell#create-contained-users-mapped-to-azure-ad-identities
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/authentication-aad-overview?view=azuresql
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/contained-database-users-making-your-database-portable?view=sql-server-ver16
Whether you should create a login, user or contained user will depend on your access and security requirements. However, in Azure SQL Database, users are created per database. So, you can create the login in the master database and then you need to create the associated user in each database on that SQL Server.
This documentation gives more information on creating logins, users and contained users for Azure SQL Database.
I need that when I use an azure ad member to login I will have the view of all of the databases without typing the specific database I would like to connect to just like when logging as admin.
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I have read this article but I still have difficulties:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/logins-create-manage?view=azuresql
I created the login [SQL-READ] which is a group I created in Azure AD for the master db as requested and also created a user in db master itself named SQL-READ and associated it with the login using
USE master
CREATE USER [SQL-READ] FROM LOGIN [SQL-READ];
GO
Furthermore I have created the same user SQL-READ in two more databases.
Then when I try to login with one of the accounts which are members of this SQL-READ group I get the error:
Login failed for user "xxxxxxx" 18456.
I only manage to connect when I type the specific DB name here at the picture below.
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You should use CREATE USER [] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER for Azure AD logins (users and groups)
My requirement I have 20 users all are configured in azure active directory resource group.
I have one Azure SQL Server under I have 3 Azure SQL Databases like Dev, QA and UAT
In Active Directory configured 20 users I need different access in each database level, some people need only read access and some people need both write and read, etc.
Please help me to do this.
Is it possible to create users group in each database level with different roles for azure active directory users?
users can login SSMS with azure active directory credentials but each user having different access in each database
you can create groups in AAD and provide the groups/users access on the database individually.
Execute the below queries in individual databases:
1)
CREATE USER [GroupName] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER or
CREATE USER [xyz#abc.com] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER
2)
exec sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader', '<>' or
exec sp_addrolemember 'dbowner', '<>' etc based on the roles which you want to assign.
Note :
Since the user is not created at server level and directly at databases level, while trying to connect via SSMS ,
Put the database name explicitly.
Per my experience, you need manually configure the AAD users with different permissions or database role in each database.
In addition, you need connect to the Azure SQL with Azure AD admin account, only the admin account can do the operations for each database.
For example, one of the AAD user 'aa#abc.com' only needs have the read permission in database Dev but needs read/writer permission in database QA and UAT. User 'bb#abc.com' needs read/writer permission in database 'Dev' and read permission in 'QA' and 'UAT'. In each database, different users are derived to two roles. Then we can not configure group level permission for these AAD users in each database.
After doing that, all the users in your AAD group will have the different permissions in different database. When connect to the database with SSMS, current user can see all the databases which he has the permission to access. You also can choose the specific database in SSMS connection properties like #Nandan said.
HTH.
I am using Azure SQL database with sharding (single tenant approach). So, when the application connects to DB it goes into Shard and creates a proper connection to the tenant's DB (tenant is identified by login name).
However, we've been using a server admin credentials for that on a development stage.
Now, I'd like to create a separate application user with much more limited permissions compared to server admin.
In a very general case, what I want is to have a user that can connect to the Shard Map and figure out a connection string to any of the Shards, but have different permissions for each of the shards. For example, some application user may need to be able to connect to DB_1 with full read-write permissions, to DB_2 with read-only permissions and no permissions to connect to DB_3.
In a simpler case I just need a user that doesn't have any update permissions to ShardMap and other internal databases, but has a normal read/write/execute access to all tenant databases(shards).
I was googling around and din't find any good recipe how to do that, what are the best practices, etc.
I'd appreciate if someone could answer me or point to a docs.
Thank yuo!
In each database create a role for the Application Users, and grant the minimal permissions needed for the application to run. Granting permissions on the Schema level is a good choice here, as you don't have to manage object-level permissions.
create role ApplicationUsers;
grant select, insert, update, delete, execute on schema::dbo to ApplicationUsers;
Then if you want a single identity to access all the databases, create a login with a password. Then in each Tenant database create a user mapped to that login.
--create a server-level Login
create login AppUser with Password ='asdfAds01980(*)(*)(#&$)##';
--add a user mapped to that login in each database
create user AppUser for login AppUser;
alter role ApplicationUsres add member AppUser;
Or create a user in each database with a different password or a database user mapped to an Azure Active Directory identity.
create user AppUser with Password ='asdfAds01980(*)(*)(#&$)##';
alter role ApplicationUsers add member AppUser;
or
create user [tenant123user#mydomain.onmicrosoft.com] from external provider;
alter role ApplicationUsers add member [tenant123user#mydomain.onmicrosoft.com];
I've recently created a App Service + SQL in my Azure account and I want to give access to some external user, maybe using SQL authentication with username and password. I know I must allow this user IP, but I cannot find where I can create credentials or a new user for him.
I've tried creating a new login and user using SQL statements but I can't access master database.
Is what I'm trying to do possible?
Thanks
There's no need to grant users access to Master. Instead connect to the target database as an administrator and simply add the user using CREATE USER
CREATE USER SomeUserName WITH PASSWORD = 'somestrongpassword123'
See generally Controlling and granting database access