Newbie alert
I have successfully configured ADAL authentication using python code.
I have used the following code:
https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-python/blob/dev/sample/website_sample.py
So I am now able to log in to the app configured in my azure account and retrieve the access token, refresh token Etc.
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I have an application that has user role based permitted actions.
Upon successful login in Azure, the App must check the user role and open the pages based on the user's role.
I used React JS and Python to build my app.
Now i am clueless as to how to integrate my user roles with the app.
Can anyone of you suggest any reading materials or solutions to this?
Thank you.
I have read about ADAL authentication but did not find process to post authentication.
https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-python/blob/dev/sample/website_sample.py
I want any architecture plan or sample code in python/ JS where the token from ADAL authentication is retrieved and used to login to the application..
You can implement RBAC using Azure AD's Application Roles & Role Claims feature or using Azure AD Groups and Group Claims. You can add roles using the manifest in Azure AD and also in the app itself.
This is by far the best sample and guide for adding RBAC and using ADAL. I was able to get a working sample going quickly from this.
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-dotnet-webapp-roleclaims
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I am designing my first dev tool with the Azure SDK (JavaScript), and I am having a difficult time understanding how to authenticate users in production so the dev tool can access the user's Azure account. The tool is going to retrieve metrics from all of the user's Azure Functions in their tenant to display React component graphs based on those metrics over time. The app will be run locally with an npm run command.
My entry point for using Azure Identity in my app was this blog post (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/authentication-and-the-azure-sdk/). I like the way the DefaultAzureCredential is working in development, using the tenant for whichever developer is running it by using the AzureCliCredential. I want a similar functionality for production, but for the browser instead of Azure Cli. In other words, if a user is already logged in to Azure Portal, it will get a credential for their tenant. How do I go about this?
One of the things I tried was opting into the Interactive Browser of the DefaultAzureCredential as described in that blog post. But even though, I could see the browser method in the src (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/blob/main/sdk/identity/identity/src/credentials/defaultAzureCredential.browser.ts), I couldn't figure how to opt into this when using the actual SDK. I couldn't find that method in the npm package in Azure Identity, and the documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/#azure/identity/defaultazurecredentialoptions?view=azure-node-latest) didn't help me either. If this is the correct option for my use case, I would like to understand how to opt into it and use it.
Another thing I tried was implementing the InteractiveBrowserCredential. As long as I pass in a redirectUri with a port not already being used by my app, it did open another tab to tell me to login to the Azure Portal if I am not already logged in. This is exactly the user experience I would want in my app. However, after logging in the credential didn't actually do anything. The credential returned actually has a client Id equal to the application Id (04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46) of Azure CLI (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/active-directory/verify-first-party-apps-sign-in) for some reason. This led me to look into the Interactive Browser Credential and find out that it is using the Authorization Code Flow (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/#azure/identity/interactivebrowsercredential?view=azure-node-latest). This flow doesn't seem right for my use case, since I have to register my app. I am not trying to grant users access to my app, but access to their own Azure account. Is InteractiveBrowserCredential what I should be using?
Next, I looked into all of the different authentication flows. None of them seem quite right for my use case though. The closest one I found was the client credentials flow (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth2-client-creds-grant-flow) since I am authenticating the user to their own Azure account and not my app. However, even this one doesn't seem quite right because when I looked up how to implement that flow with Azure Identity (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/blob/main/documentation/using-azure-identity.md#clientsecretcredential-and-clientcertificatecredential) I found out that I have to pass in the tenant Id. But the app won't know the user's tenant Id of the user before they log in. Which flow is right for this use case?
It seems like there is a gap in my understanding. How can I use the Azure SDK to implement an authentication flow that authenticates the user to their own Azure tenant (not authenticates them to my app) through the browser?
Thank you ShwetaMathur for answering this question in Q & A. Posting the same here to help Stack Overflow community members.
To access your application by Azure AD users, your application should also need to register in Azure AD.
Once your application is register, you can acquire the access token based on different OAuth flows which is needed to call various resources(Users in your case) or protected API based on your scenario.
Azure Identity TokenCredential provide various flows to obtain an access token based on different scenarios.
InteractiveBrowserCredential is one way to launches the system default browser to interactively authenticate a user and obtain an access token.
Using access token, you can retrieve user’s info or access any other resource in Azure tenant. The InteractiveBrowserCredential uses Authorization Code Flow to authenticate users for browser based applications and to access resources further.
Client credential flow is OAuth flow commonly used for server-to-server interactions that usually run in the background, without immediate interaction with a user and help to acquire the token and call protected web APIs.
Complete reference
I am very new to SSO and am having trouble enabling cross company SSO. I work on a React SPA and used the MSAL React Library to implement SSO for our application. I created a non-gallery Enterprise Application in Azure, and used that subscription information to validate users on the application during login. This is all working as expected.
After providing our SAML SSO configuration to companyB, the user at companyB cannot sign on and is getting the following error...
"Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'XYZ' and cannot access the application '123-456-789' in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Please use a different account."
To me, that means I need to manually add the user who is attempting to log in, but that would negate the usefulness of integrating the two Azure ADs. I've provided all of my SAML configuration to companyB, and still no luck. What could I be missing?
In order to create the link between the two Azure ADs, the user just needs to create a non gallery application with SAML SSO enabled and the SAML config, right? Any insight into this issue would be greatly appreciated!
I realized my code was configured to only work for one tenant, pointing to the common login endpoint solved this issue.
I have an already deployed application on azure app service which uses azure AD for authentication and authorization.
Unfortunately the developer who worked on it is no longer available
i got access to all Azure resources and source code but i cant figure out how can i add my azure account as one of the users to the app (i can login but its an empty view for me unlike what it used to be with the developer access).
Also i find the app registered on Azure AD and i am an owner there but still with no right access.
When i try to login localy from the frontend it say
Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'Default Directory' and
cannot access the application '[some numbers] in that tenant. The
account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Please use a
different account.
Would appreciate any help and many thanks in advance.
I can login but it’s an empty view for me unlike what it used to be
with the developer access
This is because your backend application is enabled with Azure AD Authentication.
After you sign in to your front-end application, you still can't access the data from the back-end app, because the back-end app now requires Azure Active Directory sign-in from the front-end app
To access the application, follow the below steps:
Grant the front-end access to the back end
Configure App Service to return a usable token
Use the token in your code
You can refer Enable authentication and authorization for front-end app in Authenticate users E2E - Azure App Service | Microsoft Docs for the detailed steps
We just moved to Azure Portal and i created a Xamarin Cross-Platform app that gets authenticated via MSAL.
When i was building the app. it was registered on https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/, and the user was getting authenticated without any problems.
After testing, i registered it on our Azure Portal under app registration, gave it the required permissions as before, and updated the app ID in the code.
Now, i cant even go past my email page. I keep getting the message:"It looks like you're trying to open this resource with an app that hasn't been approved by your IT dept", even though the admin granted the permissions to the app. Not sure where to go from here. Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance
When i was building the app. it was registered on https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/, and the user was getting authenticated without any problems.
apps.dev.microsoft.com is used to register the application for Azure AD v2.0, and you could leverage MSAL for authenticating users by using AD account or personal Microsoft account.
For the application registered on Azure portal, you need to use the ADAL library. Detailed tutorial about integrating Azure AD (v1.0) with your xamarin apps, you could follow here.
UPDATE:
Based on your scenario, for using MS graph via ADAL, you could create an app under your tenant and add the required delegated permissions to the Microsoft Graph API. The AcquireTokenAsync method would look as follows:
var authResult = await authContext.AcquireTokenAsync("https://graph.microsoft.com/", clientId, returnUri, parent);
Moreover, for differences between app-only and delegated scopes permissions, you could follow here. Also, you could check differences between Microsoft Graph or Azure AD Graph.
I have created an Azure AD native client application and have given delegated permissions to Azure Service Management API. Now, I'm able to invoke the service management API using my id from a Windows Phone 8.1 app using ADAL library. However, another user can't invoke operations on their subscription even though I add them as co-administrator in my directory. I get the token for the user but when I try to make an API call, I get 'Invalid token:A security token exception occurred for the JWT token'. Is there a way to allow another user to access details about his subscriptions using ADAL authentication from an AD app hosted in someone else's AD? I have searched for any related information for quite some time and I'd gladly take any help.
Here is what I interpret what you are doing.
You have a native app and it is connected to your tenant and it works fine for accessing service management APIs in your tenant/subscription.
You gave the app to a friend and they are trying to use it to access service management APIs in their tenant/subscription.
The suggestion above in the comment is on the right track, but you need to look at the steps for making your native application multi-tenant. This way, the AD service will know to look for the tenant for the authenticated user. Changing the url to use 'common' instead of the tenant id is one of the steps required. Here are a couple of posts to help with that transition.
http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/04/09/walkthrough-3-developing-multi-tenant-web-applications-with-windows-azure-ad/
This is a native client example of multi-tenant for a windows store app. I could not find one in the repo for a phone app. Hopefully, this gets you on the right track.
https://github.com/AzureADSamples/NativeClient-WebAPI-MultiTenant-WindowsStore