Get authenticationMethod
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 the properties and relationships of an authenticationMethod object.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
Global service | US Government L4 | US Government L5 (DOD) | China operated by 21Vianet |
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✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Permissions
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 |
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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 |
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
GET /me/authentication/methods/{id}
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 |
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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 the requested authenticationMethod object in the response body.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/authentication/methods/{id}
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
{
"odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.phoneAuthenticationMethod",
"id": "3179e48a-750b-4051-897c-87b9720928f7",
"phoneNumber": "+1 2065555555",
"authenticationPhoneType": "mobile",
"smsSignInState": "ready"
}