HTTP/Rest - need to authenticate a code/token/etc in order to pass data to keyvault so that keyvault will sign data with a key in the Key Vault.
Azure has quite a few docs on how to register my app, create credentials for it in the key vault, but then for it to authenticate via OATH2 (first step is getting a code, (then later, a token?) via REST) I keep getting redirected to log in.
Am I missing something? I want my python script to run unattended. I have created its ID and wrote down the plaintext password it gave me that it warned would never be displayed again. Not sure how to use REST in this case as I really cannot auth to any application, I dont really even have any application - the Azure people told me to just put ANY url in the box when I registered the APP in AAD.
You need to use client credentials flow. In this flow you send your credentials to AAD and it'll send you back a token. Then you can call Key Vault with that.
V1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v1-oauth2-client-creds-grant-flow
V2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth2-client-creds-grant-flow
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How do you use vault to essentially return a client secret into a json file so that it can be used by an application? I'm doing this on a remote server that many people will be ssh'ing on to. So ideally when the application executes, it would trigger a function in Python, fetch the client secret from the vault, return it as a value to the client_secrets key in the json file and allow auth without anyone else ever seeing the key.
I'll be using Google Auth client secrets with PyDrive if that makes a difference.
I implemented Microsoft login by referring to this Documentation. I am able to successfully get the Access token and call the Microsoft Graph API.
But when I created the App registration in the Azure portal. I came across the "Certificates and Secrets" Tab.
So I created a sample secret for my demo application as mentioned in the below screenshot.
But I am not able to find the exact use Case of this Secret variable. Is it used to authorize our Backend Node-JS server (Apis) or anything like that?.
It will be very helpful if anyone provided a sample use case with an example or any documentation reference. As I am completely new to Azure AD.
Thanks in Advance
The client secret is the password of the service principal. Using a certificate would be an alternative way to authenticate the SP.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal#authentication-two-options
As per MS Document,
The application needs a client secret to prove its identity when
requesting a token.
This will help the application to be more secure.
Please refer Auth Code flow as an example reference. Here in first we need to request for a code in a get request and after receiving the code from the identity server then we request for an access token in a post request by adding client secret and code in the request. This allows the third person to can't figure out what the secret and code is, hence he can't bypass the security.
Our scenario is that we have an API which is currently only secured by a subscription key in APIM.
We plan to change this to also secure it with OAuth 2 following this guidance from Microsoft, we will then use the JWT validation policies within APIM to ensure that the user requesting access is a member of the appropriate groups to access given endpoints etc.
However as part of our release process we need to run some automated tests which call the API and check that certain data is returned.
Because these tests are run as part of an automated release pipeline we are struggling to understand how OAuth will fit into this process - as a user is required to enter credentials for a token to be issued...
We originally thought that we could just request a token manually once and then hard code it into the tests, but as tokens are only valid for a short time this isn't a good solution.
Other things we are considering are :
Creating a "test user" in AD and storing their credentials in the test project and then when the tests run we can request a token using the "Password" grant type and passing the username and password" however this doesn't seem like the best from a security point of view, even though the user would only have access to a very limited subset of the APIs functionality it still doesn't seem like a good practice.
Requesting a token using the client secret, however the downside to that is this is that the JWT does not contain the groups claim so this token will not pass JWT Validation.
This must be something that others have encountered? What is best practice in this scenario?
As you can see in the article you reference, you will be using Azure API Management to be the entry point to access your API. So, using the API Management you will have subscriptions with keys for your API. You just need to create a subscription for your automated testing, and save the key in the Azure Key Vault. And then during the deployment, you pull your subscription key from your Key Vault, and use it to call the API Management Endpoint, that consequently will call your API.
The solution that we went with in the end was to create a new App Registration for the Test project, then in APIM we added a rule so that the JWT policy is not applied to connections from that app.
Might not be the best solution but it works.
We have a customer facing API where we give API Keys that map back to users. Once we look up the userName via API Key we then need to get a JWT from identity server. How can this be done without supplying the password?
This sounds like a job for a custom grant type. Another option is to issue long lived reference tokens which effectively become the API key.
so far I've not been able to get this working with the bot framework. I spent all day but only managed to get .net api example (https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet) working with AD B2C. I'm not sure where it grabs the bearer token that I want to pass to BotUserData...
I've tried following https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bot-framework-made-better-with-azure/
but in reality the solution does not build successfully and I've resorted to just taking code from there and into my bot framework sample template....however, when it asks me to login through MS and I do, I am not able to proceed and it doesn't seem like that blog is using the AD B2C policies.
so how do you integrate AD B2C with Bot Framework? Is it possible to call /Account/SignIn URL from bot framework to authenticate the user? Afterwards, how would you capture the token and pass it to BotUserData?
You might want to take a look to the Facebook Auth sample to get an idea of a potential flow for the Auth scenario. For Azure AD, you need to do a similar flow.
Let's say your user send a "Login" message to your bot. The bot should respond with an auth URL and ask the user to login to the service using that URL. You can use the GetAuthorizationRequestURL method of ADAL for that.
Then you will have a Web API which will basically expose an endpoint that will be the reply URL of Azure AD. Once the users completes the login, a message will be posted to your Web API where you will be able to get the authorization code and perform the calls to get the Access Token. After that, you can just do the same they are doing in the Facebook Sample Web API which involves resuming the conversation with the Bot, sending a message with the access token (so it can be persisted in the PerUserInConversationData bag (check this line of code).
After that you have the access token available to perform any call that requires an access token.
Update
There are two new samples that you might want to take a look since they are implementing the workflow being discussed.
GraphBot from the BotBuilder repo.
AuthBot from Mat Velloso
Hope this helps.
Follow this tutorial for Bot side code development, i focus on configuration at B2C and Azure level here:
OAuth Connection
Client id
This is taken from the Application ID field in your B2C app's properties. It's the equivalent of a Microsoft app ID taken from any other AAD app registration.
Client secret
This is generated using the steps in this tutorial.
Select Keys and then click Generate key.
Select Save to view the key. Make note of the App key value. You use the value as the application secret in your application's code.
Use AAD V2 configuration in oAuth settings in bot channel registration - new oauth connection settings.
Fill the above details by following the steps and values we got from them.
Authorization/Token/Refresh URL
I followed on this one with
https://login.microsoftonline.com/tfp///oauth2/v2.0/authorize
for the Authorization URL and
https://login.microsoftonline.com/tfp///oauth2/v2.0/token
for the Token and Refresh URL's.
For I used the URL format (kyleorg.onmicrosoft.com) rather than the GUID format, but using the GUID also seems to work.
is the name of a user flow, like B2C_1_userflow. I created one with this tutorial.
Scopes
Using the scopes openid offline_access I am able to sign in successfully, but to my astonishment the token returned is empty.
Then I found this document which suggests using the client ID itself as a scope.
When I reuse the value from the Client id field in my Scopes field, a token is returned successfully and my bot is able to use the connection.
You can combine this with other scopes as needed, but for the sake of experimentation I highly recommend getting the simplest implementation to work first.
Let me know if these instructions work, and if they don't then we'll see if the difference lies in how we've set up our B2C apps.
As a bonus, I should mention that after you get a token you can paste it into https://jwt.ms/ to decode it and see if it recognized your B2C user correctly. Always refresh the page when pasting a new token to make sure it doesn't keep showing you the information from the last token.
Referred this document.