I am on the Biz Spark program. My resources were moved from a normal account to Biz-Spark subscription and ever since then I cannot give access to external users/developers to my resources in Azure portal.
I add a user through the Azure Active Directory, then I go to the resource group which they should be able to access and make them "owner" level of that group. The guest user gets an Email invitation, but when they log in, they do not see any resources.
I've even tries adding the user as subscription admin as explained here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-add-change-azure-subscription-administrator.
They still do not see any resources when they log in.
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I've been given access to a resource group in Azure, but still get 401 page while trying to access it or any resource in that resource group. I have role assigned to me only in a resource group, not subscription (maybe this can be the reason?)
Type of my user: Guest
Role for a resource group: Contributor
Contributor role gives full access, except ability to assign roles to other users.
Also, according to docs
Guests can be added to administrator roles, which grant them full read
and write permissions
What can be the problem?
This is the page I get when trying to access resource group or any of it resource:
Azure Resource Manager sometimes caches configurations and data to improve performance. When you assign roles or remove role assignments, it can take up to 30 minutes for changes to take effect. If you are using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI, you can force a refresh of your role assignment changes by signing out and signing in. If you are making role assignment changes with REST API calls, you can force a refresh by refreshing your access token.
Source: Troubleshoot Azure RBAC - Role assignment changes are not being detected
Another option would be to visit the preview portal. Since this is a different website, you will get a new token which reflects the latest state.
I'm new to Azure AD. Got a few issues that say users are unable to see resource groups. (When they click on particular subscription -> resource group.) Is there any way to check? How to check which users can access or view the resource group which can't?
The easiest way to check the access for a user is to use the Check access feature on the Access control (IAM) page. See
Quickstart: Check access for a user to Azure resources
While creating access package or group, How can I force uses to get access (for any resources) via PIM in Azure?
While creating the group there is a option called "Azure AD roles can
be assigned to the group". What is this all about? If I say "Yes", its
showing up the "Roles".
I'm bit confused about the additional settings. Is this the setting to do this?
I don't know about access packages or access groups. But for my PIM setup I have Azure AD groups where users are added. And once they get access to the group they become eligible for requesting roles through PIM.
I have then a role in PIM, I make it eligible, and assign it to the group.
Users can open PIM, go to My Roles, and then activate the role.
Activating the role gives them permissions for one hour to access resources in a resource group. (This is all depending on what settings you put on the role in PIM). Outside of PIM they have no permissions whatsoever, so if they need access to resources they must request it via PIM.
PIM
Azure Resource
Change the default filter on Resource Type from Subscription to Resource Group or Resource if you want to assign permissions on smaller scopes
Do the things.
This is a super rookie question, so apologies in advance. I'm going to make a number of assumptions in my question, so please don't hesitate in correcting me if any are wrong.
Within Azure, you can set up Azure AD security groups. This is a way of authenticating users and the permissions they have within Azure. For example, I could create a group called "Storage Account A" which would give users in the group permission to read/write into the containers within Storage Account A.
Now, I am looking to build an Excel-based application that will need to interact with Azure Blob Storage APIs. However, the specific containers/permissions it should speak to will depend on the user in question (i.e. user A should only be able to access container A, user B should only be able to access container A and container B). So ultimately, I'm looking to delegate specific Azure access to my application, as well as authenticate users based on their AD group membership.
For this sort of use-case, is the best authorization/authentication route to go down the Service Application? Thanks!
If you want to give certain users in an AAD group access to certain containers, the only way to do this is by enabling "hierarchical namespace" upon creation of the storage account effectively turning your storage account into a Data Lake Storage Gen2. you can use Azure RBAC as pointed out by Mullins. If you need to give group-based permissions on file level, the only way to do this is by enabling "hierarchical namespace" upon creation of the storage account effectively turning your storage account into a Data Lake Storage Gen2. This will open up the possibility to use ACLs which in turn give you the possibility to assign read/write access for certain AAD groups on certain containers.
So suppose you have a Data Lake Storage Gen2 "mylake" with two containers, con-a and con-b. Let's also suppose you want to give only users who are member of the AAD group "CONTAINER_A" with the object ID "01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef" read, write and execute access on con-a. You can do so by running the az CLI command
az storage fs access set --acl "user::---,group:01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef:rwx,other::---" -p . -f con-a --account-name mylake --auth-mode login
Suppose next a user is only member of the "CONTAINER_A" AAD group and this group has Azure RBAC Contributor role assigned on mylake. This user can log in and list all directories in con-a running
az storage fs directory list -f con-a --account-name mylake --auth-mode login
which will output all directories in this container (if there are any), but this command
az storage fs directory list -f con-b --account-name mylake --auth-mode login
will fail with the message
(AuthorizationPermissionMismatch) This request is not authorized to perform this operation using this permission.
Edit:
What you will indeed need if you want to write a client application that accesses the storage account is an App Registration. Creating this in AAD will in turn automatically also create a service principal, but you shouldn't care much about it in your case. The app registration should be configured with delegated permissions as it creates access tokens on behalf of the logged in user. There is a good overview about the necessary steps here, depending on the language you write your client code in and how the client behaves (e.g. if it's possible to open the default browser to let users login at login.microsoftonline.com) you may have to adopt the flow a little.
In azure cloud i want to create two users. Both the users will not able to watch , manage others resources like user1 created a VM and user2 also create another VM so user2 should not able to watch or start,stop, terminate user1 resources what ever resource user1 using. As a whole user can manage and view only his resources not others
You can create a resource group for each user.
Then give them Contributor role to their resource group.
They will then be able to only see/create/modify things in their resource group and nothing else.
So user 1 can't see user 2's resources and vice versa.
Though if they have roles at subscription-level then they will have those rights across all resource groups.
So if you don't want that, remove their subscription-level roles.