I've been following various tutorials on Azure B2C authentication and none of them are updated to use the new "authentication experience" within the function app settings. As someone just trying to set up a basic test, this has proven very frustrating as it's not clear what to fill in since some of the terminology and settings the tutorials say to use don't exist (or possibly have a different name) in the new authentication experience. Anyway, just for the sake of diagnosing some authentication issues I'm having, I wanted to try using the classic auth experience. However I don't seem to be able to do that. I tried deleting my identity provider in the new auth experience as well as setting allow unauthenticated access for auth settings, but I still don't seem to be able to revert back to the classic setttings.
Is there a way to delete my new auth experience and revert back to classic? I just want to diagnose where I'm going wrong with my test and this is the only area where I wasn't able to follow the tutorial 1 to 1. Thanks.
Please follow the below steps:-
Connect-AzAccount
$tenantId = (Get-AzContext).Tenant.Id
Password based authentication
$sp = New-AzADServicePrincipal -DisplayName ServicePrincipalName
$sp.secret | ConvertFrom-SecureString -AsPlainText
$pscredential = Get-Credential -UserName $sp.ApplicationId
Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -Credential $pscredential -Tenant $tenantId
For automation scenarios, you need to create credentials from a service principal's applicationId and secret:
$pscredential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($sp.ApplicationId, $sp.Secret)
Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -Credential $pscredential -Tenant $tenantId
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I'm trying to run Connect-AzAccount in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 but hit the following
Connect-AzAccount
WARNING: Unable to acquire token for tenant 'organizations'
WARNING: Interactive authentication is not supported in this session, please run Connect-AzAccount using switch -DeviceCode.
Is there a way to tell powershell where Browser is?
For instance, export BROWSER="wslview" works for bash
Not sure if there is a way to tell it where Browser is, my workaround is to use a non-interactive way to login directly.
1.Register an application with Azure AD and create a service principal.
2.Get values for signing in and create a new application secret.
3.Then use the commands below to login.
$azureAplicationId ="<application-id>"
$azureTenantId= "<tenant-id>"
$azurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "<application-secret>" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($azureAplicationId , $azurePassword)
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $psCred -TenantId $azureTenantId -ServicePrincipal
If your purpose is to use the powershell to access azure resources, don't forget to assign an RBAC role to the service principal at the scope you want e.g. subscription, resource group, etc.
I have a PowerShell script that logs into Azure subscription with the command Connect-AzAccount using user's credentials.
The code is the following:
$userPassword='password'
$userName="username"
$tenantId="########-####-####-####-############"
$subscriptionId="########-####-####-####-############"
$azureSecpassword = $userPassword | ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
$azureCredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($userName, $azureSecpassword)
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $azureCredential -Tenant $tenantId -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId
The code above works without any user interaction.
Few days ago the customer enabled the multi-factor authentication for the users.
How can I keep a fully automated login process (without user interactions) with the multi-factor authentication?
Best Regards.
This is a common question. Unfortunately, the answer is No. If the account is MFA-enabled, you could just login with an interactive way.
In such a case, we choose to use the service principal to login with non-interactive in general.
$azureAplicationId ="Azure AD Application Id"
$azureTenantId= "Your Tenant Id"
$azurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "client secret" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($azureAplicationId , $azurePassword)
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $psCred -TenantId $azureTenantId -ServicePrincipal
Reference - Sign in with a service principal.
If you must log in as a user， there might be 2 optional approaches.
1. If you will run the script locally or in a specific PC
You can Persist Azure user credentials. You can enable auto save, or manually save the context to a file, and then use it in another PS session.
If you enabled auto save, then you can directly get the context as following:
Get-AzContext
# If you have more than one contexts, you can choose one by specifing the name
Get-AzContext -Name 'CSP Azure (e5b0****-****-****-****-5e5f****4c68) - jack#h****a.onmicrosoft.com'
If you want to manually do it, here is the sample:
# Interactively log for one time
Connect-AzAccount
# Save the context
Save-AzContext -Path D:\ctx.dat
And in another PS session, you can:
Import-AzContext -Path D:\ctx.dat
2. Use refresh token to acquire token, and connect to Azure
You can get the refresh token from the auto saved Azure context (usually at C:\Users\<UserName>\.Azure\TokenCache.dat).
Open the dat file with notepad, and you will get the refresh token:
Then you can get a new token in PowerShell with that refresh token, and connect to Azure:
Clear-AzContext
$tenantId = "e4c9ab4e-****-****-****-230b****57fb"
$subscriptionId = "e5b0fcfa-****-****-****-5e5f****4c68"
$refreshToken = 'AQABAAAAAAAP0****a lot of characters here*****0A9FWoB8mvDtoWRJHBVO7GJzodLKYmNIAA'
$url = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/" + $tenantId + "/oauth2/token"
$body = "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=" + $refreshToken
$response = Invoke-RestMethod $url -Method POST -Body $body
$AccessToken = $response.access_token
Connect-AzAccount -AccountId "the user id, jack#h****a.onmicrosoft.com" -AccessToken $AccessToken -Tenant $tenantId -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId
How can I keep a fully automated login process (without user interactions) with the multi-factor authentication?
You can't do this with a user account--that's the whole point of multi-factor authentication.
Instead, Azure AD supports authenticating with a service principal (instead of a user principal, like you're doing currently), and Azure supports granting access to Azure resources to service principals.
MFA requirements (and other conditional access policies) do not apply to service principals (often referred to as an Azure AD "app"), and service principals support more secure methods of authentication for automation scenarios (e.g. public/private key pairs).
So, what you should do:
Ensure the machine running this script is secure. Anyone with access to the machine has the same amount of access as the script.
Create an application identity and associate credentials with it.
Note: It is strongly recommend you use certificate-based authentication for your service principal, instead of password-based. It is a very insecure practice to have any kind of secret stored in a PowerShell script!
Grant the service principal the minimum level of access to Azure resources, to allow it to complete the required task.
Update your script to use the app's identity (service principal) instead of the user's identity. It's even simpler than using a user account:
$tenantId = "########-####-####-####-############"
$subscriptionId = "########-####-####-####-############"
$appId = "########-####-####-####-############"
$thumbprint= "##############"
Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -TenantId $tenantId -ApplicationId $appId -CertificateThumbprint $thumbprint
Note: If this script is running on a VM in Azure, you should forget step 2, and simply enable a managed identity and use that.
I am trying to write some powershell script that has to combine both Az cmdlets and AzureRM to accomplish some of the stuff I want to do.
What truly happens though when I call all in the same script:
Connect-AzAccount
Connect-AzureAD
Connect-AzureRMAccount
Initially, I make a call to Get-Credential and save that in a variable.
Then I use those credentials to populate -Credential in the Connect-AzAccount
Then because of Multi-Factor Authentication, I have to then make a call to Connect-AzureAD, which prompts a popup that allows the user to enter Email, Password and Code from MFA text to phone.
Later in the script, there are some cmdlets that are in the RM version, and so I call Connect-AzureRMAccount with the previous Credentials from above.
$credentials = Get-Credential
$azureCredentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($credentials.UserName, $credentials.Password)
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $azureCredentials -Tenant $tenantID -SubscriptionId $subscriptionID
Connect-AzureAD -Tenant $tenantID
Connect-AzureRMAccount -Credential $azureCredentials -Tenant $tenantID -SubscriptionId $subscriptionID
What is actually happening in terms of Authentication during this entire script where several different Connect cmdlets are called.
Due to some reason, there is a specific cmdlet
$AppRegistration = New-AzureADApplication -DisplayName $appName -HomePage $AppURI -IdentifierUris $AppURI -ReplyUrls $AppURI -PasswordCredentials $psadCredential
where I get an error in Powershell telling me that I need to call Connect-AzureAD again, even though it was already called once during the script. Does it time out with the MFA?
How can I avoid having to get the user to sign in several times after running the script?
I don't think this is a correct option, if you want to avoid MFA, the workaround is to create a service principal(AD App), grant the permissions for it, then you can login with the service principal without MFA.
You could follow the steps below.
1.Create an Azure Active Directory application, then Upload a certificate and Get values for signing in.
2.Navigate to the Azure Active Directory in the portal -> Roles and administrators -> click Application administrator -> Add assignment -> search by your AD App name(service principal name) -> select it -> Select.
Note: In your case, you want to use the command New-AzureADApplication, so you need to give the Application administrator directory role to your AD App(service principal), if you want to do other things need more permissions, you may need to give a role like Global administrator, it depends on you.
3.Then you could use the command below to login with Az module and AzureAD module.
Connect-AzAccount -CertificateThumbprint "F1D9FE13A8FBxxxx1C8B07D1666" -ApplicationId "aa60b5df-xxxxxx8ae8e0cc2e4" -Tenant "bb58915cxxxxxxb97ed6c65" -ServicePrincipal
Connect-AzureAD -CertificateThumbprint "F1D9FE13A8FBxxxx1C8B07D1666" -ApplicationId "aa60b5df-xxxxxx8ae8e0cc2e4" -Tenant "bb58915cxxxxxxb97ed6c65"
New-AzureADApplication -DisplayName "newapp" -IdentifierUris "http://mynewapp11.contoso.com"
Previously, I was able to login to the azure subscription via powershell using the below code.
$azureAccountName ="username"
$azurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($azureAccountName, $azurePassword)
Login-AzureRmAccount -Credential $psCred
Recently, Microsoft introduced MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) and now the above code fails as we now have to verify the login via a code received on the mobile number registered at the time of profile creation.
I do not want the interactive login but the automatic one which my code was earlier able to do.
Any suggestions?
As a workaround, I think you can use service principal instead of your Microsoft account.
About create Azure service principal, we can follow this article via Azure portal to create it.
Then use PowerShell like this:
$subscriptionId="5384xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxe29axxxx"
$tenantid="1fcf418e-66ed-4c99-9449-d8e18bf8737a"
$clientid="1498b171-e1ca-451f-9d7a-8ef56a178b89" #appid
$password="7db814b1-xxxx-4654-xxxx-1d210cb546f9"
$userPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $password -AsPlainText -Force
$userCredential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $clientid, $userPassword
Add-AzureRmAccount -TenantId $tenantid -ServicePrincipal -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId -Credential $userCredential
In this way, we can use powershell to login it.
This is not posible (at least to my knowledge).
Use an application password.
I've highlighted a couple things from the Microsoft documentation here, but the short version is that an app password is basically your personal back door to bypass MFA. Note that for that reason an organization can restrict users from being able to create app passwords.
An app password is a long, randomly generated password that you provide only once instead of your regular password when signing in to an app or device that doesn't support two-step verification.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/user-help/multi-factor-authentication-end-user-app-passwords
Certain non-browser apps, such as Outlook 2010, doesn't support two-step verification. This lack of support means that if you're using two-step verification, the app won't work. To get around this problem, you can create an auto-generated password to use with each non-browser app, separate from your normal password.
You're given an app password during your initial two-step verification registration. If you need more than that one password, you can create additional passwords, based on how you use two-step verification
Use one app password per device, not per app. For example, create a single password for all the apps on your laptop, and then another single password for all the apps on your desktop.
There's a limit of 40 passwords per user. If you try to create one after that limit, you'll be prompted to delete an existing password before being allowed to create the new one.
I need to wire up a stateless worker ad-hoc to perform a long running job based off a user action that self destructs when its done. I am trying to run New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment from within a PoSh Function App and cannot figure out how to authenticate to Azure from within the PoSh script.
I tried this:
$accountName = "myID#mydomain.com"
$pwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object PSCredential($accountName, $pwd)
Add-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred
New-AzureResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName yadda yadda
And I get an error message that I need to use an Organization ID (which I am, our Azure AD is federated and we use AD Sync (and SiteMinder w/o WS-* if that matters)):
Add-AzureRmAccount : -Credential parameter can only be used with Organization ID credentials. For more information, please refer to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=331007&clcid=0x409 for more information about the difference between an organizational account and a Microsoft account.
I tried "Login-AzureRMAccount -Credential $cred" with similar results.
If I do the Add- or Login- cmdlets from a PoSh window on my local machine (which is member joined to AD) with the -Credential flag I get a similar error. If I run the cmdlets without the credential I am prompted for credentials through an interactive ID/PW window (I do not have to enter my password once I type in my ID).
Does anyone know how I can do the authentication? I would be okay with authenticating like above, some sort of pass through credential from our web layer, or even an Option C I don't know about.
You will need to use service principal for authentication. A sample with instructions can be found here.
Azure Function role like permissions to Stop Azure Virtual Machines
For that you would need to use Service Principal auth. I don't think there is any sense of copypasting Azure Doc's to this answer, just consult this document:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-authenticate-service-principal