Set a user's emailAuthenticationMethod object. Email authentication is a self-service password reset method. A user may only have one email authentication method.
Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.
Permission type
Least privileged permissions
Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)
Not supported.
Not supported.
Application
UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Not available.
For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Administrator or Privileged Authentication AdministratorMicrosoft Entra role.
Users cannot add an email authentication method to their own account.
HTTP request
Add an email authentication method to another user's account.
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/emailMethods
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods
Content-Type: application/json
{
"emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;
var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod
{
EmailAddress = "kim@contoso.com",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.EmailMethods.PostAsync(requestBody);
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphmodels.NewEmailAuthenticationMethod()
emailAddress := "kim@contoso.com"
requestBody.SetEmailAddress(&emailAddress)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
emailMethods, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().EmailMethods().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
EmailAuthenticationMethod emailAuthenticationMethod = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
emailAuthenticationMethod.setEmailAddress("kim@contoso.com");
EmailAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().emailMethods().post(emailAuthenticationMethod);
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EmailAuthenticationMethod;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
$requestBody->setEmailAddress('kim@contoso.com');
$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->emailMethods()->post($requestBody)->wait();
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