Getting AccessToken from Azure Ad via UserName & Password - c#

I have a Native Client registered in our Azure AD.
When i'm using
var ar = _context.AcquireToken(resource, clientId, returnUri);
It opens the Prompt for Username and Password. If I enter them correctly I get a valid AccessToken and everything is fine.
When I'm now trying to enter the credentials in code, via UserCrendtial:
var credential = new UserCredential("username", "password");
var ar = _context.AcquireToken(resource, clientId, credential);
But both resulting in an Error when I'm trying it with the directly entered Credentials.
AADSTS65001: No permission to access user information is configured
for '4915f024-blah-blah-blah-f580ab5b0487' application, or it is
expired or revoked.
I have tried the normal (string, string) and the (string, SecureString) overload of the UserCredential.
I have tried it with the exact same combination of username & password, which I have entered in the Prompt, of the first overload from AcquireToken.
I have also tried to give the Application in Azure all the Delegated Permissions:
Read directory data
Read and write directory data
Access your organization's directory
And added Windows Azure Service Management API Application with Permission:
Access Azure Service Management
Nothing helped.
As a sidenote, the Application in the Azure has permissions to a SharePoint O365 Tenant. To Read and Write ListItems I don't know if this is relevant. The Resource i'm passing through is the SharePoint Adress.
I don't need any user access over the Graph Api to the Azure. I only need that AccessToken to access our SharePoint Online.
Edit:
Architecture:
Description:
We have a Web Api Project which handles the User Authorization, Load Balancing etc. This Web Api Project, will be queried by either Native Dekstop Clients or Hybrid HTML5 & Javascript Mobile Device Apps.
The Web Api Project needs to Read, Create, Update & Delete Data from our SharePoint O365 Tenant. So this where I need the AccessToken to init a ClientContext or send i via a rest response.
Since the Web Api handles the User authorization, there is an endpoint for users to login already and in this endpoint I want to acquire the Token. That's why I want it to be silent, because the "flexbile browser popup" is already there.
Maybe I don't need in this scenario the Token acquiring with Username / Password, but then I don't know how to configure the Azure App right to work with all the different native client's.

not sure if it's your case but you can use :
built in auth (setting 'on' in webapp options; then create express app or/and then chose advanced mode with same apps ids);
then add AD native client app;
login to old classic portal there select native app and in config add access to you express/advacsed web app;
after that you will able login in browser; and with adal lib will able login to access you api from mobile devices;
for more see ms docs and samples;

The direct use of username and password has important limitations, please make sure you are not stumbling on any of the ones listed in http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2014/07/08/using-adal-net-to-authenticate-users-via-usernamepassword/.
Also note, nothing that requires displaying a user consent screen (as all the permissions you described will) or specific disambiguation steps (like trying to use a guest user from X to access a resource protected by tenant Y) will work.
What is your scenario? Any specific reason for which you want to use username/password instead of the more flexible browser popup?

Related

Microsoft Identity Headless Login

I have a Windows service that cycles through four different mailboxes, reads the emails into a CMS system, then deletes the emails. I have been using simple sign-on with IMAP, but apparently Microsoft has deprecated this option and I need to move to Microsoft Identity.
In my corporate environment I cannot use an app account due to security issues, so I have to use user logins.
Can I authenticate to a user using Microsoft Identity headless in a Windows service? I don't want to have to authenticate manually each time the service starts up, plus I am not even sure if I can have 4 Microsoft user accounts active at the same time. Any direction would be appreciated.
I'm assuming you mean the EWS web api.
To use Microsoft oauth you need a azure application registration with the delegated api permission EWS.AccessAsUser.All.
With this setup you can either access the mailbox of a user with the users login token (i.e. either using their username and password or interactive user login) or you can use user impersonation.
To use user impersonation you need a username and password of a user that is allowed to access the mailboxes you need access for.
Another way to go is to setup a azure application registration with a application api permission to EWS.AccessAsUser.All. This allows you access to all mailboxes. I would not recommend this as people may not like the fact you can access any mailbox in an organization.
Following the code examples from the URL above will get you access to only online mailboxes. To support a hybrid setup where the mailbox is either online or on-premise the missing link is to autodiscover the mailbox server URL(so you don't hardcode it to the Exchange online URL). This has been made very simple with autodiscover v2. It's a simple https request where the result is the URL of the exchange server to use.
I would recommend using the user impersonation along with autodiscover v2 for the most secure and most flexible setup.

How to handle all user's data through google workspace app

I have been working on a c# application which performs gmail operations on a domain of users. What I am currently doing is using a service account to impersonate users using domain wide delegation. I am able to use the google admin directory sdk to get the list of user emails in the domain in order to impersonate the users. I then use the gmail API to perform account operations on the impersonated user.
To do all this I have to:
1a) manually install the json credential file for the service account
2a) enable domain-wide delegation
3a) enable the appropriate scopes to allow api calls for gmail
I am able to see instances of other applications which have the following flow:
1b) Login to super admin google account
2b) Using the workspace marketplace, perform a domain install to install an application for all domain users.
3b) Launch the app, which redirects to the applications web app.
I noticed that after the application redirects, they are able to access all data for all user's in the domain. From what I understand, installing the app allowed (2a) and (3a) to occur. So the proper scopes were set and the app is usable throughout the entire domain. My question is how are other applications able to achieve accessing all of the data without having to download a credential file for the service account (1a).
From what I gathered, the only way to iteratively access each user's data, you have to use a service account. So once the application redirects, how are they able to access all of the user's data without setting up a service account and how are they able to able to authorize a service account without manually downloading the service account credential file.
I found an video example of a third party app with this flow here:
https://youtu.be/WBNt38b7dQg?t=201

How to get user token silently for Azure DevOps and use it for accessing DevOps REST APIs?

Problem Statement:
I'm trying to create a module in C# console application that I intend to plug and use in Azure Bot once it is operational. I want to connect my bot with Azure DevOps. I am able to do that with PAT token but I need the bot to only display the resources from DevOps on which the logged in user has access.
Attempts:
I am able to get the necessary details using PAT token. It gives me all projects irrespective of the logged in user details.
I have tried to use the Azure AD token for the logged in user but it gives me unauthorized error on trying to use it to invoke Azure DevOps REST APIs
Referred this article but I am unable to get the auth code or token silently.
To summarize, I'm basically looking to:
Obtain a user token for Azure DevOps silently (without user confirming with a click)
Use REST APIs to fetch details like projects, work items etc.
A Personal Access Token inherits the permissions from the user that created it. So if you, as a project collection administrator, create a token, that token has the samwe permissions as you do.
Unfortunately there is no public REST API that you can use to create a token at runtime. They have to be created by a logged in user through the portal.
Another option is using OAuth. OAuth asks the user to login and then gives you a token that you can use in the REST APIs. Unfortunately that doesn't meet your criteria where a user doesn't have to do anything,
The only other way I see is adding the users to the resources they have permissions for. Then from your REST API you can use the admin PAT to check their permissions and then retrieve only what they are allowed to see. Which also isn't really pretty :-(

C# Winforms Authenticate with Microsoft Onedrive

Is is possible to login to Microsoft's OneDrive API without having to use a Browser-based OAuth mechanism?
I have a server application in C# that I would like to connect to a OneDrive account and manage files. Every code sample and piece of information I find always requires a browser-based authentication process. Is there way to utilize the Application secure keys or password to bypass this nuisance?
-Jeff
Yes, you can do that with application identity (no user login is needed).
Here are the steps that you have to do in your Azure portal:
Register Application in azure portal
Add required scopes like Files.ReadWrite.All etc..
Generate secrete Key for Identity
Or here is a Shortcut provided by MS Docs, where you can create Client Id and Secret with a single click.
Use Client ID, Tenant Id, Secret Key to authenticate any calls without user login.

OAuth2 Resource Owner Password Grant via API

I am currently building an API which requires OAuth2, but cannot find a library to use that will handle the single sign on in a native mobile app via RESTful API only. Most I've found only have a web popup, which has been vetoed for this project. B2C, which is currently functioning, is not capable of using ROPG. Is there a way to easily set this up with another library using C#.NET and Azure?
UPDATE:
Attempting to use B2C per Fei Xue answer below, we got to the point of getting an access token from Microsoft Graph.
In the body of the POST, we did the following:
resource=https%3A%2F%2FGraph.windows.net&client_id=[B2C Settings -
Applications -
AppId]&grant_type=password&username=rob%40[tenant].onmicrosoft.com&password=[password]&client_secret=[B2C Settings - Applications - App Key - client_secret]
Our error with the namespace was due to the usernames we were trying. This is a B2C tenant using email as the username and that was the reason for the namespace error. The only way we got past that error was to create a B2C user with the email address ending in the tenant, like so:
rob#[tenant].onmicrosoft.com
We are getting an access token now, but that token does not authenticate with our azure app service api app, which was the original goal.
What we are trying to accomplish is to send the username and password that is valid for a B2C signin and get an IdToken or Access Token that is valid for the api app. The api app connects to B2C via App Service Authentication settings configured for AAD with the Client ID and secret setup from the B2C Settings Application.
UPDATE:
Attempting to pass through the graph.windows.net token for authentication in our Azure web api, we added in the https://Graph.windows.net allowed token audience in our App Service – Authentication – Active Directory Authentication configuration.
However, passing the graph access token in the Bearer header to the API still results in
“Authorization has been denied for this request”.
Found out that if we make the Issuer Url blank like in the example below, it now accepts the Graph token!
However, this causes issues when trying to hit
https://[our_web_app].azurewebsites.net/.auth/login/aad
It goes to the common Microsoft login now. Previously it directed to our B2C sign up in policy because the Issuer Url was set to:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/[tenantname].onmicrosoft.com/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration?p=[B2C_SignUpIn_Policy]
In fact, if we also pull up the policy from within our app (which was working before removing the Issuer Url) to the sign in policy, we can sign in, but that returned Access Token now always comes back as Unauthorized in the web API calls.
Should the Issuer Url be left blank?
Also, since making the Issuer Url blank, the server takes much longer to respond to API calls when we send a request using a Graph access token in the Header Authorization Bearer. It went from taking about 1-2 seconds (using a valid B2C access token obtained from MSAL or the web login above) to taking about 10-15 seconds to respond that it is an authenticated request. That kind of speed is a show stopper for us. Does validating a graph call in this manner normally take this long?
The feature is now available in preview and works pretty well:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/configure-ropc
Important note: The POST url mentioned in the documentation is wrong.
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{{Aad_Tenant}}/b2c_1_ropc_auth/oauth2/v2.0/
Must be:
https://login.microsoftonline.com/{{Aad_Tenant}}/oauth2/v2.0/token?p=b2c_1_ropc_auth
The calling application must have native client enabled, otherwise you will get this error:
AADB2C90224: Resource owner flow has not been enabled for the application.
The Azure AD B2C has already support the Resource Owner Password Grant flow, you can send the HTTP request like below to using this flow:
POST: https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/token
resource=https%3A%2F%2FGraph.windows.net&client_id={client_id}&grant_type=password&username={userName}&password={password}&client_secret={secret}
Note: this flow only work for the local accounts as social identity providers(Facebook, Google, etc) don't support this.
Update
The token above is acquiring the token for https://graph.windows.net. To pass through the authentication of web API which protect by Azure AD, we need to specify this as the ALLOWED TOKEN AUDIENCES like figure below:
Update to the answer from #AlexAIT.
The URL in the documentation now works for AD B2C.
https://<tenant-name>.b2clogin.com/<tenant-name>.onmicrosoft.com/B2C_1A_ROPC_Auth/oauth2/v2.0/token
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/add-ropc-policy?tabs=app-reg-ga&pivots=b2c-user-flow#test-the-ropc-flow
If you get the error:
AADB2C90224: Resource owner flow has not been enabled for the
application
Navigate to application -> Authentication and select Enable the following mobile and desktop flows:.
Wait a few minutes and then it will start to work.
Github thread:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/50330
I work with Rob, and we did finally get the call to work with
https://login.microsoftonline.com/[tenant_ending_in_onmicrosoft.com]/oauth2/token
In the body of the POST, we did the following:
resource=https%3A%2F%2FGraph.windows.net&client_id=[B2C Settings - Applications - AppId]&grant_type=password&username=rob%40[tenant].onmicrosoft.com&password=[password]&client_secret=[B2C Settings - Applications - App Key - client_secret]
Our error with the namespace was due to the usernames we were trying. This is a B2C tenant using email as the username and that was the reason for the namespace error. The only way we got past that error was to create a B2C user with the email address ending in the tenant, like so:
rob#[tenant].onmicrosoft.com.
We are getting an access token now, but that token does not authenticate with our azure app service api app, which was the original goal. What we are trying to accomplish is to send the username and password that is valid for a B2C signin and get an IdToken or Access Token that is valid for the api app. The api app connects to B2C via App Service Authentication settings configured for AAD with the Client ID and secret setup from the B2C Settings Application.
UPDATE:
If I add ?p=[B2C SignUpIn Policy] to the POST, then we get the following error:
AADB2C90224: Resource owner flow has not been enabled for the
application.

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