I created an Azure app for which I created custom scopes through the "Expose API" screen. I have a single page application that uses the code flow to login into the application requesting these custom scopes. On my ASP.NET Core web application, I added the authentication layer to use JWT as bearer. Works pretty well and I can secure my web APIs as expected.
Now, I also added API permissions for msgraph because I want to be able to create online meetings with it. The flow would be:
The user logs in using my custom scope audience
He sends a call to a secure web api to create something
Something is added to the database
An online meeting is created on behalf of the user
The "issue" is that the access token received by my web API is not valid for msgraph, I need to get one, on behalf of the user related to the access_token. However, I have no idea how to get a msgraph token using another access_token. I don't even know if that's possible.
However, if it's not possible, how am I supposed to create the online meeting from the .NET Core part of my application ?
Take a look at the On Behalf Flow, specifically the example "First case: Access token request with a shared secret". You can use your existing access token as the assertion parameter.
The following HTTP POST requests an access token and refresh token with user.read scope for the https://graph.microsoft.com web API.
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POST /oauth2/v2.0/token HTTP/1.1
Host: login.microsoftonline.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer
&client_id=2846f71b-a7a4-4987-bab3-760035b2f389
&client_secret=BYyVnAt56JpLwUcyo47XODd
&assertion=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InowMzl6ZHNGdWl6cEJmQlZLMVRuMjVRSFlPMCJ9.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.TPPJSvpNCSCyUeIiKQoLMixN1-M-Y5U0QxtxVkpepjyoWNG0i49YFAJC6ADdCs5nJXr6f-ozIRuaiPzy29yRUOdSz_8KqG42luCyC1c951HyeDgqUJSz91Ku150D9kP5B9-2R-jgCerD_VVuxXUdkuPFEl3VEADC_1qkGBiIg0AyLLbz7DTMp5DvmbC09DhrQQiouHQGFSk2TPmksqHm3-b3RgeNM1rJmpLThis2ZWBEIPx662pjxL6NJDmV08cPVIcGX4KkFo54Z3rfwiYg4YssiUc4w-w3NJUBQhnzfTl4_Mtq2d7cVlul9uDzras091vFy32tWkrpa970UvdVfQ
&scope=https://graph.microsoft.com/user.read+offline_access
&requested_token_use=on_behalf_of
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I am working on a PHP web app that needs to make HTTP requests to the Sharepoint API with Sites.Selected permission to a specific SharePoint site. It is NOT viable for me to provide a user sign-in experience so I need to treat it as a non-user/daemon application.
I've read the docs and looked at many different forums for the solution but as of yet I've been unsuccessfull in obtaining a SPO specific access token, although I think I'm close.
I am using this StackOverflow answer as a guide: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63386756/19038862
This is what I've done:
Registered an Azure App: (Image of my Azure App Overview)
Created a client secret in the App dashboard: (Image of the client secret page)
Successfully sent a request to https://login.microsoftonline.com/{{app_tenant_id}}/oauth2/v2.0/token using the client secret in Postman: (Image of Postman request)
The request made in step 3 returns an access token (I assume a MS Graph access token?), but it DOES NOT return a refresh token, which is what the afforementioned StackOverflow answer suggests you need to "swap" for an SPO specific access token.
How do I obtain this refresh token so that I can swap it for a SPO access token? Or what better way is there to get my hands on a SPO specific access token from a non-user app?
I wrote this gist to guide you into getting Sites.Selected access to the desired site:
https://gist.github.com/ruanswanepoel/14fd1c97972cabf9ca3d6c0d9c5fc542
This guide shows you how to configure this as Application permissions, and via the Graph API.
I've found going through the Graph API is the best way to go.
Also strangely it's not possible to get delegated Sites.Selected permissions. You must set it up as an Application permission.
In the guide is described that you have to get a delegated auth token from graph but you are getting an application auth token. The token response of this flow does not contain a refresh_token. See here.
But you already wrote that you are not able to provide a user sign-in experience. One workaround would be to once manually get the access_token and refresh_token of a user with the delegated flow and then periodically get a new access_token with the refresh_token on your server. You could store these values in your database and update them when you fetch a new one.
First, the daemon-based client credential flow does not return a refresh token for you. You also can't redeem the refresh token of the graph API for an access token for SPO, which are two completely different API resources.
To get an access token for SPO you just need to set scope to: https://{tenant-name}.sharepoint.com/.default.
I have a web app MyWebApp.
And two APIs: MyAuthAPI and MyServiceAPI, both RESTful NodeJS. MyAuthAPI uses HashiCorp Vault as a token store with OAuth2.
MyServiceAPI has CRUD operations available to authenticated clients.
There is no human login required (or desired) on MyWebApp. Any human can access MyWebApp through a browser and run the service.
At present, this is the (very insecure) flow:
MyWebApp sends clientid and clientsecret to MyAuthAPI to retrieve token. This token is then used for communicating with MyServiceAPI.
The obvious downside is that anyone can capture the clientid and clientsecret by simply looking in developer tools in a web browser. They could then use those to authenticate with MyAuthAPI, generate their own token, and make calls to MyServiceAPI without MyWebApp being involved.
So how do I best secure the entire application so that MyWebApp is safely and robustly authenticated without revealing the credentials?
Thanks.
ETA:
I want to be able to authenticate MyWebApp with MyAuthAPI and then use the generated token to connect to MyServiceAPI. But I don't want it to be possible that anyone can intercept those credentials - currently they can be see in the request header as "Authorization: Basic "
The MyServiceAPI endpoints must be secured so that only authenticated clients are able to access them. But when that client (MyWebApp) is a public website, how do I authenticate without making the credentials visible?
ETA2:
https://mywebapp.com is MyWebApp which is a React application.
https://myauthapi.com hosts MyAuthAPI
https://myserviceapi.com hosts MyServiceAPI
When I load mywebapp.com in a web browser, it authenticates with myauthapi.com/oauth/token to get a token. At present it does this by sending the creds in the header Authorization: Basic
The token that is returned is then saved.
The web application then tries to get the data from an endpoint on MyServiceApi using this token:
Authorization: Bearer
GET https://myserviceapi.com/objects
or POST myserviceapi.com/objects
or GET myserviceapi.com/objects/objectid
or DELETE myserviceapi.com/objects/objectid
MyServiceAPI verifies the token with MyAuthAPI, but that isn't public-facing, so there's no issue there.
The issue is that, as you can see from the attached screenshot of the Developer Tools console in Chrome, anyone using the web application can see the Authorization header containing the credentials, and could then use these credentials to programatically gain access to the auth API to generate a token which can then be used on the service API endpoints.
I want to restrict all access to the API servers to only come from specific applications, such as MyWebApp, on mywebapp.com.
First, I think this question could better be asked in https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/.
Second, where MyWebApp is deployed? How it is being used? If it works with https, then the body is encrypted, and when you send the clientId and clientSecret, you should send it in the body, so users will not be able to see them.
Client Credentials Grant should only be used by confidential Clients. Thats because you can't hide the client_secret on non confidential Clients. Your frontend seems to be a non confidential Client.
Normally you should use the Authorization Code Grant with PKCE. But you would need users to authenticate themselves for that.
Feels like you need an architecture design based on standard flows, since OAuth should work like this:
Web app signs user in via an Authorization Server, using Authorization Code Flow (PKCE)
Web app gets tokens from the Authorization Server
Web app calls API with an access token
API validates token using data from the Authorization Server
API then trusts claims in the access token and uses them for authorization
See my Initial HTTP Messages blog post for an example of how this looks.
I have my own application, call it appA, that I registered with Azure Active Directory. I authenticate users into appA using the authorization code grant process outlined here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v1-protocols-oauth-code#request-an-authorization-code. I specify the resource the Jwt to be good for as appA during this process. After a user enters credentials, I get an authorization code, then use that code to get a Jwt and a refresh token good for appA.
Once users are authenticated into my application, I want to inspect the groups they are in for role based access control. The groups are not returned in the token because each user has more than 5 groups.
This forces me to make an additional call to the graph Api to get groups for a certain user. But, in order to do this, I need to use the refresh token and specify the https://graph.microsoft.com as the resource to the token refresh endpoint. The token I am returned is now good to make requests against the graph Api.
My question is: how can I make the call inside appA to get the token good for the graph api? It seems like I will have to juggle multiple Jwts at the same time and I am having a hard time conceptualizing how this will work.
how can I make the call inside appA to get the token good for the
graph api?
You could directly request the token for the MS graph API, which just needs to change the resource value for MS graph API (https://graph.microsoft.com) in the OAuth 2.0 code grant flow.
In the Request an authorization code
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/authorize?
client_id=<client-id-value>
&response_type=code
&redirect_uri=<redirect-uri-value>
&response_mode=query
&resource=https://graph.microsoft.com
&state=12345
The response like this:
In the Use the authorization code to request an access token
POST /{tenant}/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1
Host: https://login.microsoftonline.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
grant_type=authorization_code
&client_id=<client-id-value>
&code=<code-value>
&redirect_uri=<redirect-uri-value>
&resource=https://graph.microsoft.com
&client_secret=<key-value>
The response like this:
Then you could use the access_token to make requests against the MS graph API.
I would like to upload a given file to Sharepoint. I'm using the Microsoft Graph API.
The documentation follows this workflow:
1. If no token, redirect the user to the Microsoft signin page.
2. The user is then redirected to the application, with an access token
3. Use access token to have an authorization bearer
4. Do what you gotta do...
My problem is the sign-in part. I don't want my users to be redirected to the Microsoft signin page. I want my application to connect and get the access token in the background (with cURL or whatever).
How can I do that? Why is the "open in browser" necessary?
I tried to replicate the sign-in process, but all I get back is the HTML response from the signin page.
Thanks in advance.
Your application act as a single-tenant service or daemon app.
The documentation about this scenario is here : https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/authorization/app_only
The application must be registered in the AzureAD directory corresponding to the Office365 tenant
A first request is made by passing the application unique identifier and secret key as registered in the directory. This request returns an access token
The access token can now be used in the Authorization header of the following request to the Microsoft Graph API.
This method (of using Client ID and Secret) works well but there are other ways which may be better suited for similar scenarios.
The one major thing which is missing in access token generated this way is a user, meaning the token only contains the identity of the OAuth application (client) which called it but is not associated with any user for the request.
This could have a couple of implications:
Since the token is not associated with a specific user you will not know who performed the operation. In your example, you would not know who uploaded the file (and other similar information may be missing).
Access token without users will not work at all for some methods. For those, you need a delegated token.
Creating a delegated token requires some effort, if you are interested you can find the details in my article:
Getting Access Token for Microsoft Graph Using OAuth REST API
We have a web service, which currently uses Basic Auth over https to authenticate user requests. We also have a website which uses the service, and a native Windows client, which also uses the web service. I've read about OAuth, and it seems like it's always used for giving or getting access to external resources, i.e. delegation, but I'm trying to understand if it's a replacement for Basic Auth.
I'm not quite sure how all the parts fit together. Do you use Basic over https to the website to retrieve a secret and then have the javascript which is making requests to the REST services authenticate to the web service using OAuth instead of Basic?
It seems that at some point the user needs to enter their username and password into a form. I'm not sure what typically happens next. Is this even a use case for OAuth?
If you have local database accounts for the users (Resource owners) then you can replace the basic authentication with the one of OAuth flow named "Resource Owner Password Credentials" flow.
It is very simple flow where you issue HTTP post to an end point specified in your HTTP server usually named /token The content-type for this HTTP Post action is x-www-form-urlencoded, so the post body will contain something like this grant_type=password&username=Taiseer&password=SuperPass
One the request is sent to the /token end point the server will validate the user credentials against your database store, and if all is valid it should generate a token (signed string) which contains all the claims for this resource owner (user). Then your client application should present this token in the Authorization header with each call to any protected end point using bearer scheme.
This token expires after certain period and you can configure this from the AuthZ server. You can read my detailed blog post Token Based Authentication to get more details.