Get passwordAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a password that's registered to a user, represented by a passwordAuthenticationMethod object. For security, the password itself will never be returned in the object and the password property is always null.

This API is available 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

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user 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

Admins with User Administrator, Helpdesk Administrator, or Password Administrator roles can also retrieve password authentication methods for non-admin users and a limited set of admin roles as defined in Who can reset passwords.

HTTP request

The ID of the password authentication method, referenced by {passwordMethods-id}, is always 28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490.

Get details of your own password authentication method.

GET /me/authentication/passwordMethods/{passwordMethods-id}

Get details of your own or another user's password authentication method.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/passwordMethods/{passwordMethods-id}

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 the requested passwordAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/passwordMethods/28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490

C#

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

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Authentication.PasswordMethods["{passwordAuthenticationMethod-id}"].GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users authentication password-methods get --user-id {user-id} --password-authentication-method-id {passwordAuthenticationMethod-id}

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

Go

// 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"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
passwordMethods, err := graphClient.Me().Authentication().PasswordMethods().ByPasswordAuthenticationMethodId("passwordAuthenticationMethod-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

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

PasswordAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.me().authentication().passwordMethods().byPasswordAuthenticationMethodId("{passwordAuthenticationMethod-id}").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 passwordAuthenticationMethod = await client.api('/me/authentication/passwordMethods/28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490')
	.get();

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->authentication()->passwordMethods()->byPasswordAuthenticationMethodId('passwordAuthenticationMethod-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-MgUserAuthenticationPasswordMethod -UserId $userId -PasswordAuthenticationMethodId $passwordAuthenticationMethodId

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.authentication.password_methods.by_password_authentication_method_id('passwordAuthenticationMethod-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 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.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('67273bfa-5cd8-477a-acf7-e13ff81ebf70')/authentication/passwordMethods/$entity",
  "id": "28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490",
  "password": null,
  "creationDateTime": null
}