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.
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I am currently logging int Azure using
az login -u -p ""
The issue is that the email is MFA and a verification code is needed to be entered in.
This login process is used for CICD. Is there a way I can automate this process without having to enter the verification code
Thank you for your valuable suggestion and for directing in the right direction, #fmarz10.
Service principals with various forms of credentials, such as passwords, secret keys, and certificates, can be used to do this.
After adding the role you can automate login using
$azureAplicationId ="Your Azure AD Application Id"
$azureTenantId= "Your Tenant Id"
$azurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "strong password" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object >System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($azureAplicationId , $azurePassword)
Add-AzureRmAccount -Credential $psCred -TenantId $azureTenantId ->ServicePrincipal
REFERENCES
Azure Service Principals
Sign in with Azure PowerShell
Azure Provisioning - Without manual login
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.
In an application, I'm currently using PowerShell and MSOnline module (Connect-MsolService and Get-MsolUser) to get a list of AD users. A global admin provides his username and password and the application is able to get a list of all users under that tenant.
That works fine... As long as the password is not an app password. When an app password is used then the following is what the global admin gets to see:
Authentication Error: Bad username or password
My question is: Is there any other method, which uses PowerShell, but doesn't have to, to get the list of users in AD, but which works with app password? I know of Graph API, but that's not a fit for the project right now.
If I understand you correctly, you want to use the AD App and its password(secret) to list the users.
You could use the Az powershell module to do that, login with the service principal and list users via Get-AzADUser. Also, make sure your AD App(service principal) has the admin role like User administrator or Global administrator.
$azureAplicationId ="<AD App Application id>"
$azureTenantId= "<tenant id>"
$azurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "<password>" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($azureAplicationId , $azurePassword)
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $psCred -TenantId $azureTenantId -ServicePrincipal
Get-AzADUser
Update:
Currently, use app password of MFA enabled user to connect MSOL powershell is not supported, for more details see this link.
App passwords are NOT supported, simply use Connect-MsolService without any parameter to trigger the ADAL dialog and complete the 2FA challenge as normal.
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"
In the release pipeline, I am trying to connect to Azure AD by using Connect-Azaccount so I can run Get-AzADgroup to retrieve some Az AD group names and their guid and output to variables.
I created Azure Powershell task with the following inline script.
(Get-AzADGroup -DisplayName "group-name").origin
It seems you need to use a non-interactive login, follow the steps as below.
Create an Azure Active Directory application and create a secret for the app, save the secret and get values for signing in.
In your AD App -> API permissions -> Add a permission -> select Azure Active Directory Graph -> Application permissions -> Directory.Read.All -> click Add permissions -> click Grant admin consent for xxx, refer to the screenshot.
Try the script as below, use the values which you get in step 1, it works fine on my side.
Note: You need to use the Task version with 4.*(preview) when you use Az powershell module.
$azureAplicationId ="<your ad app application id>"
$azureTenantId= "<your tenant id>"
$azurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "<the secret of your ad app>" -AsPlainText -Force
$psCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($azureAplicationId , $azurePassword)
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $psCred -TenantId $azureTenantId -ServicePrincipal
#I just test to get all groups, you could do other operations
Get-AzADGroup