List methods

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Retrieve a list of authentication methods registered to a user. The authentication methods are defined by the types derived from the authenticationMethod resource type, and only the methods supported on this API version. See Microsoft Entra authentication methods API overview for a list of currently supported methods.

We don't recommend using the authentication methods APIs for scenarios where you need to iterate over your entire user population for auditing or security check purposes. For these types of scenarios, we recommend using the authentication method registration and usage reporting APIs.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

The following tables show the least privileged permission or permissions required to call this API on each supported resource type. Follow best practices to request least privileged permissions. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.Read UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts where the signed-in user is acting on another user, they must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

  • Global Reader
  • Authentication Administrator
  • Privileged Authentication Administrator

Note

The authentication administrator only sees masked phone numbers.

HTTP request

List your own authentication methods.

GET /me/authentication/methods

List your own or another user's authentication methods.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/methods

Optional query parameters

This method does not support optional query parameters to customize the response.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of authenticationMethod objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/authentication/methods

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "value": [
    {
      "odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.passwordAuthenticationMethod",
      "id": "28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490",
      "password": null,
      "creationDateTime": null
    },
    {
      "odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.phoneAuthenticationMethod",
      "id": "3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7",
      "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555555",
      "authenticationPhoneType": "mobile",
      "smsSignInState": "ready"
    },
    {
      "odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.phoneAuthenticationMethod",
      "id": "b6332ec1-7057-4abe-9331-3d72feddfe41",
      "phoneNumber": "+1 2065555556",
      "authenticationPhoneType": "alternateMobile",
      "smsSignInState": "notSupported"
    }
  ]
}