Obtaining an access token for MSI enabled web application - azure

I have a Web API project hosted in Azure as web app with Managed Service identity enabled (so I don't need an app registration, right?):
Now I need to obtain a token to access my API so that I can use it in POSTMAN:
az login
az account get-access-token --resource "https://mytenant.onmicrosoft.com/d3a219e0-bbbf-496b-a4a4-b9ca485c5a52"
which gives me
Get Token request returned http error: 400
and server response:
{"error":"invalid_resource","error_description":"AADSTS50001: The
application named
https://mytenant.onmicrosoft.com/d3a219e0-bbbf-496b-a4a4-b9ca485c5a52
was not found in the tenant named
xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-af31-xxxxxxxxxx. This can happen if the
application has not been installed by the administrator of the tenant
or consented to by any user in the tenant. You might have sent your
authentication request to the wrong tenant.
I get the same error if I try to use object id 63d571cf-79bf-405d-8304-a31fb64cb953 instead of app id as part of resource uri.
What am I doing wrong?

What am I doing wrong?
az account get-access-token is used to get token to access the Azure resource. We could get more information from this document.
--resource
Azure resource endpoints. Default to Azure Resource Manager Use 'az cloud show' command for other Azure resources.
The resoure should be in the following endpoints. And default resource is https://management.azure.com/
"endpoints": {
"activeDirectory": "https://login.microsoftonline.com",
"activeDirectoryDataLakeResourceId": "https://datalake.azure.net/",
"activeDirectoryGraphResourceId": "https://graph.windows.net/",
"activeDirectoryResourceId": "https://management.core.windows.net/",
"batchResourceId": "https://batch.core.windows.net/",
"gallery": "https://gallery.azure.com/",
"management": "https://management.core.windows.net/",
"resourceManager": "https://management.azure.com/",
"sqlManagement": "https://management.core.windows.net:8443/",
"vmImageAliasDoc": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/master/arm-compute/quickstart-templates/aliases.json"
}
Based on my understanding, the command no relationship with your API access.
For more information about MSI and how to protect an API by using OAuth 2.0 with Azure Active Directory, please refer to this tutorial and this tutorial.

The resource URI does not contain your Application Id nor Object Id.
It is a separate identifier that you can find from the App Registration's Properties under App ID URI.
And since this is an MSI-generated service principal, there is no app. I think you have to register an app in this case.

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How can I grant consent to my own app in azure, in case I am not global admin in tenant?

Given I have created an app using this repository in Azure.
And this app is deployed using a Service Principal which was created by below command:
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "fxpricepredictor" --role contributor --scopes "/subscriptions/YOUR-SUBSCRIPTION-ID/resourceGroups/YOUR-RESOURCE-GROUP-NAME" --sdk-auth
Now, I need to get the API token to manage my created resources using REST APIs.
Based on documentation, I should be able use my tenantId, clientId and client_secret to get the token by calling the bellow endpoint:
curl: POST
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{{tenantId}}/oauth2/token
Please notice that, I am not the global admin in the tenant.
The official sample postman collection is here and here is how my request looks like in postman:
Sadly the endpoint does not provide me the token and instead it returns such error:
{
"error": "unauthorized_client",
"error_description": "AADSTS700016: Application with identifier 'MY_CLIENTID' was not found in the directory 'MY COMPANY'. This can happen if the application has not been installed by the administrator of the tenant or consented to by any user in the tenant. You may have sent your authentication request to the wrong tenant.\r\nTrace ID: 5a9a2c53-c3c8-46da-a1a6-551b42082400\r\nCorrelation ID: bf7c5966-ffa4-4312-8a77-434c2560d65a\r\nTimestamp: 2022-10-05 14:54:23Z",
"error_codes": [
700016
],
"timestamp": "2022-10-05 14:54:23Z",
"trace_id": "5a9a2c53-c3c8-46da-a1a6-551b42082400",
"correlation_id": "bf7c5966-ffa4-4312-8a77-434c2560d65a",
"error_uri": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/error?code=700016"
}
please notice, I hided some sensitive values in error response by MY_CLIENTID and MY COMPANY
So, i guess, the main reason that i am facing this issue is that:
This can happen if the application has not been consented to by any user in the tenant.
Meaning that, i should consent my own app. Am I right ?
So, my question is:
How can i get the token to work with REST APIs to manage my resources ?
How can I grant consent to my own app, given that I am not a global Admin ?
Update:
As I figured out, I should be able to Grant Consent to my app using "Microsoft Graph permissions reference". And here is what i have done:
Login to Azure portal
Navigate to "Azure Active Directory"
Navigate to "App registrations"
Click on the created APP ("fxpricepredictor")
Navigate to "API permissions"
Click "Add a permission"
Click on "Microsoft Graph"
Choose "Delegated Permissions"
Search for "authentication" ---> (Sadly this option also requiereds Admin Consent)
I tried to reproduce the same in my environment and got the below results:
When I ran the same command as you, one Azure AD application named fxpricepredictor is automatically created with details like below:
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "fxpricepredictor" --role contributor --scopes "/subscriptions/<subscriptionID>/resourceGroups/<resourcegroupName>" --sdk-auth
By including above details as parameters, I am able to generate access token successfully via Postman like below:
Please note that, I don't have global administrator role and granting admin_consent is not really required.
With the above access token, I am able to fetch and manage the Azure resources in that resource group like below:
GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<subscriptionID>/resourceGroups/SriTest/resources?api-version=2021-04-01
Response:
The error AADSTS700016 may also occur if there is no application in your tenant with provided ClientID.
I tried including random ClientID which does not exist in Azure AD tenant and got same error as below:
So, make sure to check whether the application is existing or not with the given ClientID in Azure AD tenant.

Microsoft Azure OAuth Client Credentials Token gets "AuthorizationFailed" response

I want create APIM subscriptions through rest api, And was able to do it successfully by following this Microsoft doc, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/apimanagement/current-ga/subscription.
And for Authentication I am generating a bearer token using ROPC grant type(My UserName & Password). Everything works fine with this flow.
But i dont want to configure my username & password in a application to get a bearer token, instead i followed Client-Credentials grant type(get token by client id & secret), i am able to generate token, but when i use that token to create subscription in APIM, i am getting a exception
The client '0--e' with object id '0--e' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/subscriptions/write'
Is it possible to add a AAD application inside APIM AccessControl(IAM) to grant permission.
Or is this any other way to do this? or ROPC is the only way?
Can someone please help.
Yes, you can grant permission to AAD application (service principal) in APIM Access Control (IAM) by assigning it API Management Service Contributor role.
I tried to reproduce the same in my environment and got the below results:
I have generated one access token using Client-Credentials grant type like below:
When I used the above token to create APIM subscription with below query, I got the same error:
PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/apimService1/subscriptions/testsub?api-version=2021-12-01
{
"properties": {
"ownerId": "/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rgname/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/servicename/users/xxxxxxxxxxx",
"scope": "/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rgname/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/servicename/products/xxxxxxxxxxx",
"displayName": "testsub"
}
}
Response:
To resolve the error, you need to grant API Management Service Contributor role for that application like below:
Go to Azure Portal -> APIM Services -> Your APIM -> Access control (IAM) -> Add role assignment
After granting the above role, I generated the access token again and ran the same query as below:
PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/subid/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/apimService1/subscriptions/testsub?api-version=2021-12-01
Response:
When I checked the Portal, APIM subscription got created successfully like below:
Reference:
How to use Role-Based Access Control in Azure API Management | Microsoft Docs

Unable to get access token. 'AADSTS500011: The resource principal named 'xxx' was not found in the tenant -tenantid

I am trying to get the access token for the Azure function app. I have enabled managed identity for the function app(system assigned). but while fetching the token using the nuget Azure.Identity.
var tokenCredential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
var accessToken = await tokenCredential.GetTokenAsync(
new TokenRequestContext(scopes: new string[] { "https://xxx.azure-api.net/" + "/.default" }) { }
);
I am getting the error.
The resource principal named 'xxx.azure-api.net' was not found in
the tenant 123
but when run az cli to check the subscription details, the subscription indeed part of the tenant 123 only.
Here is what I have finally done.
I have registered an App in AD. and Exposed the API of that App.
I have assigned System Assigned Managed Identity to the Function.
In the local I am not able to request token because Azure CLI is not given consent.
After deploying the application in Function my Function app can request a token using its identity.
You need to register the application in azure ad and enable the access token. Once that is done the you need to provide RBAC access to your xxx.azurewebsites.net
Follow this article for the step by step documentation Microsoft Document Reference
Unfortunately, the error message is not really helpful. But adding a scope to the app registration solved the problem for me:
In Azure Portal navigate to App Registrations
Find your app, in the left side menu select Manage => Expose an API
Add a scope. I named mine api_access as this was where this error occurred.
In my case I then got an API URI (like api://client-id/scope_name) which I used in my Angular app. Error message was gone.
Also, make sure that in the Enterprise Application you have created, under Manage => Properties, "Assignment required" and "Visible to users" is turned on.

Azure usage details API shows "Authentication failed" after sign in with azure active directory v1 connection

I completely followed this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-authentication?view=azure-bot-service-4.0&tabs=aadv1%2Ccsharp%2Cbot-oauth and created a Azure AD app registration and used Azure Active Directory v1 for my web app bot.
After sign in, I view the token but with that token I cannot access the Azure API's, as it shows below response in Postman:
{
"error": {
"code": "AuthenticationFailed",
"message": "Authentication failed."
}
I called the Azure API below:
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/${subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Consumption/usageDetailsapi-version=2018-10-01
In my app registration in Azure AD, I have given these permission to access the Azure API:
In my Web App Bot -> Settings -> OAuth Connection Settings, I select:
ClientId -> My application client id
ClinetSecret -> My application client secret
GrantType -> I does not know what to give so I just typed "authorization_code" (If this wrong then Where I need to find my grantType)
LoginURL -> https://login.microsoftonline.com
TenantId -> common (To allow any user)
ResourceURL -> https://graph.microsoft.com/
Scopes -> I just left blank
Why am I not able to access the Azure API with that token?
Any Help. Thanks
An access token issued by Azure AD will always be for a specific resource. Which service a token is intended for is identified in the token's "audience" (in the aud claim). When using the v1 endpoint, the resource for which an app requests an access token is identified in the resource parameter of the authorization request. In the v2 endpoint, the resource is identified as part of the scope parameter.
In your case, the resource you've configured your bot to get a token for is Microsoft Graph (https://graph.microsoft.com), but then you're trying to use the resulting token to call the Azure Management API. The first thing the Azure Management API does is check if the access token it received is actually intended for it. If the audience does not match, it will immediately respond with an error.
Instead of trying to get a token for Microsoft Graph, you need to configure your bot to get a token for the Azure Management API. You should use https://management.azure.com, which is the resource URI for the Azure Management API, instead of https://graph.microsoft.com which is the resource URI for Microsoft Graph.

Can't get access token for custom AD Application

When attempting to get an access token for a custom AD Application, using az account get-access-token --resource '<APP ID Uri>', I receive the following error:
AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application with ID '04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46' named 'Microsoft Azure CLI'. Send an interactive authorization request for this user and resource.
04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46 is not my application id, and my application has had administrator consent granted. I've tried putting this id in an interactive login request with no change in behavior.
get-access-token works fine when the resource is a defined MS endpoint like https://database.windows.net or https://vault.azure.net/
My goal is to have Azure App Services with Managed Service Identity authenticating to each other with short-lived AD bearer tokens. Each service has a configured audience that corresponds to the AD App.
Running az account get-access-token --resource '<APP ID Uri>' from local CLI, you are trying to get token from '<APP ID Uri>' using Azure CLI, which client ID is exactly 04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46.
To handle this you could go to:
Azure Active Directory → App registrations → {your app} → Expose an API → Add client application with:
ID: 04b07795-8ddb-461a-bbee-02f9e1bf7b46
Authorized scopes: check '<APP ID Uri>'
To make sure you have right ID you could run az account get-access-token paste token to jwt.io and find value of "appid".
Documentation reference:
Application IDs for commonly used Microsoft applications
I can reproduce your issue with a --resource '<APP ID Uri>', if I login cli with a user account.
If I login with a service principal, it works fine.
You could try to login azure cli with a service principal, refer to this link.

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