Im learning AzureAd. How do i set up my app so that the user can log in and get read access for all users but only write access to itself? I know this is a very noob question but im finding it difficult to get the right words to search for.
When you register the app in Azure AD, you would need to setup its required permissions based on your requirements.
As it so happens, there are ones which give it the access you want.
You would need to require access on Microsoft Graph API with the following delegated permissions:
You will get R/W access to current user's profile, as well as read access to all users' profiles.
If you need full profiles, use that instead of basic profiles.
But that one requires an administrator to consent the permission.
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I'm trying to configure Azure B2C in such a way that it prompts the user for a login id and password, these are then authenticated using an external REST call, and it returns an OIDC token containing whatever claims I wish to return in the REST call.
I can make the REST call work and add claims to an existing example policy no problem. The problem is removing the superfluous Azure AD behaviour without breaking the policy.
If the user doesn't exist in the Azure AD Directory, I don't care, I'm not interested in the user having an Azure profile at all, I want all the user data to come from the application's own database, but I haven't found a way to stop Azure from redirecting the user to create a new local AD account if one doesn't already exist.
The documentation is very dense and has a few walk-throughs of how to do a few of the things it expects you to want to do, but nothing like what I want to do. It points to a startup pack and some samples, but again these are very fully featured and not what I want to do, and trying to work backwards from them is proving intractible.
What's lacking is something that describes how to create a custom policy from scratch and take full control of the process of authenticating the user.
Does anyone have any suggestions of how to go about this, or know of some good documentation about this kind of thing?
There's an example here.
Basically, self-asserted screen to get credentials, verify against API, send JWT to application.
What is delegated in Msgraph api. Does it mean we can't use it by creating app on Azure Active Directory.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/application-post-calls?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http#permissions
I want to use online meeting and call apis without my customers to register teams or microsoft
Delegated permissions are used to call APIs on behalf of a signed-in user.
If an API only supports them, a user will have to sign in to your application so that you can call the API on their behalf.
Refresh tokens allow you to do this for a long time without requiring the user to interact with the app, but those can and do expire.
Another choice might be to use the ROPC flow, but that requires you to use a username and password to get tokens, and that user cannot have MFA enabled for example (one of many cases where ROPC does not work).
There are two primary mechanisms that an application can use to access the Graph. The one is an "Application" approach, where it needs to be given access rights by an administrator, and can then access certain services / endpoints. There's often an "app secret" that is used in conjunction with the application "Id". This is kind of similar in the past to how we would have created a specific 'service' account + password. ROPC is even more similar, and actually -does- require a username + password, but it's not generally recommended.
The other is "delegated", which means that the application can access certain resources that are specific to that user (like their own mailbox for example). In this case, the user themselves might be required to 'approve' the application's right to access the graph on his/her behalf.
Note that BOTH of these options involve the use of an Azure AD Application, but which permission option you can use depends on the specific operation in the Graph that you're interested in calling. As an example, let's say you wanted to access the list of members in a Teams team. This is explained here, where the "permissions" section indicates that either Application or Delegated permissions can be used to do this. In contrast, here is another operation that can ONLY be done with Delegated permissions, and not by a standalone application without a user granting access.
I’ve been asked by a customer to find a way to collect all permissions for all app registrations in the customer’s AzureAD tenant. The customer has 1500+ App Registrations, so checking each manually isn’t an option. Most of these are redundant but the customer wants to review all of them to look for Graph API permissions that they’ve deemed sensitive. The problem is, there isn’t a way to export this info in the portal and Get-AzADApplication doesn’t give me actual permissions, just friendly descriptions of them. The customer would like the ACTUAL Graph API, such as Mail.Read.
I’ve attempted to script this with the assistance of a few more senior PFEs, but we’ve been unable to make any progress passing various properties between Get-AzAdApplication, Get-AzADServicePrincipal and Get-AzureADOAuth2PermissionGrant. We reached the point where we were able to get the Graph API permissions from the Service Principals, but the resultant permissions were in an unusable format.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to get this information into a concise format with (preferably) the Graph API permissions as mentioned above, I’d greatly appreciate it. I’d rather not go back to the customer and say it isn’t possible, as this is a new customer and I’d rather not say ‘No’ to my first task. 😊
Use Microsoft Cloud App Security for that purpose. This is tool designed, beside other features, especially for that purpose.
You open https://security.microsoft.com/ as a Global or Security Administrator, then you have quick overview on central place:
This will bring you to the MCAS portal, where you have solicit view on all applications with a rating, according to Microsoft standards for "Highly priviledged" access:
A direct view to applications, which users are using these applications, what permissions are granted. It even has filtering capabilities allowing you filter apps based on access level sevirity or even some Graph permissions - like Access e-mail on behalf of the user.
Your customer should really be using the Microsoft Security Center and monitor their security score: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/mtp/overview-security-center
Then looking at MCAS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise-mobility-security/cloud-app-security
You can use this script to list all delegated permissions and application permissions in Azure AD.
The key of the script is Get-AzureADServicePrincipalOAuth2PermissionGrant -ObjectId.
Based on my test, the permissions in the result is in this format: email offline_access openid profile User.Read.
I think it's what you need.
I would like an AAD app to act on behalf of a user, without requiring the user to login to authenticate himself. E.g., I would like an app to be able to send an email from a user's account on the user's behalf programmatically using Graph API, but based on an event, and without user sign in each time to authenticate. Is this something that is possible using AAD delegated permissions?
I cannot use the client credentials flow using application permissions, because my admin will not grant access to my app, so I am looking for a viable workaround.
Thanks in advance!
You will need the user to consent your app using his/her e-mail address. Or an admin consenting the app to use everyones e-mail address. No other way.
Check out this article which describes dealing with long term access to APIs without presence of the user. And this here, describing the offline_access scope.
But, without someone letting you use their e-mail, you cannot use it. Period.
I'm building an app using which the users registered(from the IAM page) for the project can access the resources of that project. I need the authentication when the URL is hit. Is there a way to achieve this?
Is it possible to provide IAM roles specific for a user request (assuming that the user will login using his email id) to access the resources based on IAM level permissions?
In the early days of AppEngine it was pretty easy to do some basic auth/access-control, but lately they're moving it to something called IAP.
From your wording I am assuming you are trying to abstract administrative tasks of a GCP project to lesser privileged administrators.
Questions 1 and 2 can be quickly solved by defining privileges in IAM using a pre-built roles or creating a custom role if you need to be more specific. Hereby you can use GSuite, GMail, Google Group accounts and let them sign into console.cloud.google.com. They will consequently only be able to see and act upon what you've assigned to them to in IAM.
If you still want to go through with building it yourself, every product does provide an API including authentication. Best practice for your use case is to instead of assigning an individual user access to a resource, you rather create a service account and then allow the user to call that service account. For this GCP has the Service Account Actor Role described well in the official documentation and also Salmaan Rashid provides a good practical insight on medium.