Get authenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties and relationships of an authenticationMethod object.

This API is supported in the following national cloud deployments.

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

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least one of the following Azure AD roles.

• Global Reader
• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

Note

The authentication administrator only sees masked phone numbers.

HTTP request

Get your own authentication methods.

GET /me/authentication/methods/{id}

Get your own or another user's authentication methods.

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

Optional query parameters

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

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and the requested authenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following is an example of the request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/methods/{id}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

var graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = await graphClient.Me.Authentication.Methods["{authenticationMethod-id}"].GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users authentication methods get --user-id {user-id} --authentication-method-id {authenticationMethod-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



methods, err := graphClient.Me().Authentication().Methods().ByAuthenticationMethodId("authenticationMethod-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

AuthenticationMethod authenticationMethod = graphClient.me().authentication().methods("{id}")
	.buildRequest()
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let authenticationMethod = await client.api('/me/authentication/methods/{id}')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW VERSION OF THE SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->authentication()->methods()->byAuthenticationMethodId('authenticationMethod-id')->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserAuthenticationMethod -UserId $userId -AuthenticationMethodId $authenticationMethodId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# THE PYTHON SDK IS IN PREVIEW. FOR NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(request_adapter)


result = await graph_client.me.authentication.methods.by_method_id('authenticationMethod-id').get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following is an example of the response.

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

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

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.windowsHelloForBusinessAuthenticationMethod",
    "id": "b5e01f81-1f81-b5e0-811f-e0b5811fe0b5",
    "displayName": "Jordan's Surface Book",
    "createdDateTime": "2020-11-27T23:12:49Z",
    "keyStrength": "normal"
}