az ad sp

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Manage Azure Active Directory service principals for automation authentication.

Commands

az ad sp create

Create a service principal.
az ad sp create-for-rbac

Create a service principal and configure its access to Azure resources.
az ad sp credential

Manage a service principal's password or certificate credentials.
az ad sp credential delete

Delete a service principal's password or certificate credentials.
az ad sp credential list

List a service principal's password or certificate credential metadata. (The content of the password or certificate credential is not retrievable.).
az ad sp credential reset

Reset a service principal's password or certificate credentials.
az ad sp delete

Delete a service principal and its role assignments.
az ad sp list

List service principals.
az ad sp owner

Manage service principal owners.
az ad sp owner list

List service principal owners.
az ad sp show

Get the details of a service principal.
az ad sp update

Update a service principal.

az ad sp create

Edit

Create a service principal.

az ad sp create --id

Examples

Create a service principal. (autogenerated)

az ad sp create --id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Required Parameters

--id

Identifier uri, application id, or object id of the associated application.

az ad sp create-for-rbac

Edit

Create a service principal and configure its access to Azure resources.

The output includes credentials that you must protect. Be sure that you do not include these credentials in your code or check the credentials into your source control. As an alternative, consider using managed identities if available to avoid the need to use credentials.

By default, this command does not assign any role to the service principal. You may use --role and --scopes to assign a specific role and narrow the scope to a resource or resource group. You may also use az role assignment create to create role assignments for this service principal later. See steps to add a role assignment for more information.

az ad sp create-for-rbac [--cert]
                         [--create-cert]
                         [--display-name]
                         [--keyvault]
                         [--role]
                         [--scopes]
                         [--sdk-auth {false, true}]
                         [--years]

Examples

Create without role assignment.

az ad sp create-for-rbac

Create using a custom display name.

az ad sp create-for-rbac -n MyApp

Create with a Contributor role assignments on specified scopes. To retrieve current subscription ID, run `az account show --query id --output tsv`.

az ad sp create-for-rbac -n MyApp --role Contributor --scopes /subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/resourceGroup1 /subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/resourceGroup2

Create using a self-signed certificate.

az ad sp create-for-rbac --create-cert

Create using a self-signed certificate, and store it within KeyVault.

az ad sp create-for-rbac --keyvault MyVault --cert CertName --create-cert

Create using existing certificate in KeyVault.

az ad sp create-for-rbac --keyvault MyVault --cert CertName

Optional Parameters

--cert

Certificate to use for credentials. When used with --keyvault,, indicates the name of the cert to use or create. Otherwise, supply a PEM or DER formatted public certificate string. Use @{path} to load from a file. Do not include private key info.

--create-cert

Create a self-signed certificate to use for the credential. Only the current OS user has read/write permission to this certificate. Use with --keyvault to create the certificate in Key Vault. Otherwise, a certificate will be created locally.

default value: False
--display-name --name -n

Display name of the service principal. If not present, default to azure-cli-%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S where the suffix is the time of creation.

--keyvault

Name or ID of a KeyVault to use for creating or retrieving certificates.

--role

Role of the service principal.

--scopes

Space-separated list of scopes the service principal's role assignment applies to. e.g., subscriptions/0b1f6471-1bf0-4dda-aec3-111122223333/resourceGroups/myGroup, /subscriptions/0b1f6471-1bf0-4dda-aec3-111122223333/resourceGroups/myGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/myVM.

--sdk-auth

Output result in compatible with Azure SDK auth file.

accepted values: false, true
--years

Number of years for which the credentials will be valid. Default: 1 year.

az ad sp delete

Edit

Delete a service principal and its role assignments.

az ad sp delete --id

Examples

Delete a service principal and its role assignments. (autogenerated)

az ad sp delete --id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Required Parameters

--id

Service principal name, or object id.

az ad sp list

Edit

List service principals.

For low latency, by default, only the first 100 will be returned unless you provide filter arguments or use "--all".

az ad sp list [--all]
              [--display-name]
              [--filter]
              [--show-mine]
              [--spn]

Optional Parameters

--all

List all entities, expect long delay if under a big organization.

--display-name

Object's display name or its prefix.

--filter

OData filter, e.g. --filter "displayname eq 'test' and servicePrincipalType eq 'Application'".

--show-mine

List entities owned by the current user.

--spn

Service principal name.

az ad sp show

Edit

Get the details of a service principal.

az ad sp show --id

Examples

Get the details of a service principal with appId.

az ad sp show --id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Get the details of a service principal with id.

az ad sp show --id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Get the details of a service principal with identifier URI.

az ad sp show --id api://myapp

Required Parameters

--id

Service principal name, or object id.

az ad sp update

Edit

Update a service principal.

az ad sp update --id
                [--add]
                [--force-string]
                [--remove]
                [--set]

Examples

update a service principal (autogenerated)

az ad sp update --id 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 --set groupMembershipClaims=All

Required Parameters

--id

Service principal name, or object id.

Optional Parameters

--add

Add an object to a list of objects by specifying a path and key value pairs. Example: --add property.listProperty <key=value, string or JSON string>.

default value: []
--force-string

When using 'set' or 'add', preserve string literals instead of attempting to convert to JSON.

default value: False
--remove

Remove a property or an element from a list. Example: --remove property.list OR --remove propertyToRemove.

default value: []
--set

Update an object by specifying a property path and value to set. Example: --set property1.property2=.

default value: []